AN ANCIENT MYSTERY, A THRILLING SEARCH, AN EPIC LOVE STORY. Fresh from her successful hunt for the long-hidden scrolls written by Mary Magdalene, journalist Maureen Pascal receives a strange package in the mail, containing what looks to be an ancient document written in Latin and signed with a symbol. Its author, Maureen discovers, is Countess Matilda of Tuscany, an extraordinary woman who history has overlooked - or covered up - and she's demanding the return of her most precious papers. Soon, Maureen finds herself in a race across Italy and France, where new dangers await her and her lover Sinclair as they begin to uncover secrets and shine new light on the hidden corners of Christianity in their search for The Book of Love, the Gospel written in Jesus' own hand. As Maureen learns more about Matilda, a warrior countess who was secretly married to a Pope, she begins to see the eerie connections between herself and Matilda, connections she must unravel quickly if she is to stop the wrong people from finding The Book of Love and hiding it forever . THUMBNAIL THE EXPECTED ONE.