The Aethelred Cipher: A Medieval Conspiracy Shepherding the Black Death

A dying monk. An iron key. A conspiracy older than Christendom.

1347. Scribe Thomas of Eltville thought his greatest challenge would be copying manuscripts in peace. Then his mentor is murdered in front of him, and thrusts an iron key into his hands with his dying breath.

The key unlocks a cipher hidden in manuscript margins across Europe. The cipher reveals a conspiracy that has been engineering human bloodlines, and human catastrophes, for over two thousand years.

Now Thomas is running for his life with two unlikely allies: Margarethe, a cloth merchant whose father was tortured to death by the Order for knowing too much, and Maria, a fourteen-year-old girl who carries forty generations of forbidden knowledge encoded in her blood.

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