A locked room.A brutal murder.A secret beyond belief...

Bestselling biographer Megan Hunter's new book about Cassano looks set to be as successful as her previous biographies of Caravaggio and Dante. But as she embarks on a publicity tour, Megan finds her book attracting attention for the wrong reasons when her editor is found horrifically murdered. It is a classic locked-room mystery.The only evidence is the destroyed remains ofMegan Hunter's Cassano biography and the latest blockbuster by horror writer John Paxton.But there is nothing to link the two authors. Nothing but another murder. And another.

Can it be true that God demands a terrible price of those He has gifted with great creativity?Giacomo Cassano, little known mentor of Dante, thought so. He held other beliefs too-beliefsthat the Church found so abhorrent they had him blinded and his tongue cut out to silence his blasphemy forever.

Bestselling biographer Megan Hunter's new book about Cassano looks set to be as successful as her previous biographies of Caravaggio and Dante. But as she embarks on a publicity tour, Megan finds her book attracting attention for the wrong reasons when her editor is found horrifically murdered. It is a classic locked-room mystery.The only evidence is the destroyed remains ofMegan Hunter's Cassano biography and the latest blockbuster by horror writer John Paxton.But there is nothing to link the two authors. Nothing but another murder. And another.

And a secret beyond the belief of even Cassano himself...