David Franco, a talented young scholar specializing in Renaissance art and literature at the Newberry Library in Chicago, is introduced to one of the library#x19;s main benefactors: Kathryn Van Owen. A beautiful and wealthy widow with a mysterious past, Van Owen has a sketch of a mirror created by the Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini #x13; a mirror reputed to confer the power of immortality upon any who look into it on a moonlit night #x13; and she is prepared to pay David a million dollars to find it for her. If the rumours of the mirror#x19;s powers are true David could not only pay off his dying sister#x19;s medical bills #x13; he could offer Sarah a chance of survival. But David will need help if he is to piece together the clues scattered through art and history to the mirror#x19;s current location. And there are others who have heard of the mirror#x19;s powers and will stop at nothing to find it&In his stunning new thriller, Robert Masello blends past and present and fact and fiction to create a gripping race through history.