Before his death in 1609, the brilliant Elizabethan spy, astrologer and mathematician John Dee hid many of his papers, believing that the world was not prepared for the ideas they held. In spring 2003, Dee’s many times great granddaughter and final holder of the secret passes the enigmatic
legacy to her younger son, Will, along with a tiny silver key. Will travels Europe seeking to decipher
the clues in the ancient document, and find a lock to fit the key, but he is not the only one trying to reach the truth at the heart of the Rose Labyrinth.

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