Washoe County Library System

"In the late sixteenth century, five brilliant scholars gather to discuss God, politics, astronomy and the black arts. Known as the School of Night, they meet in secret to avoid the wrath of the queen. But one of them, scientist Thomas Harriot, has secrets of his own... In modern-day Washington, DC, disgraced Elizabethan scholar Henry Cavendish is hired to find a stolen letter from the 1600s. But the letter is of interest to others. Soon Henry is...