Having accompanied his academic mother and younger sister to Oxford, Blake Winters stumbles across a magical book that was secretly brought to England in 1453 by Gutenberg's apprentice and that draws Blake into a dangerous quest.
While visiting Oxford with his mother and kid sister, Blake finds a strange, wordless book in the college library, but as Blake looks, words begin to appear on the page--words no one else can see. Reprint.
IN THE DEAD of night, a cloaked figure drags a heavy box through snowcovered streets. The chest can only be opened when the fangs of its serpents-head clasp taste blood.
Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The volume is wordless, but fine veins run through its pages, and they seem to quiver, as if alive. Words begin to appear in the bookwords only the boy can see.
