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A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick
"For fans of The Talented Mr. Ripley and The Secret
History...The perfect mystery." --Jenna Bush Hager, Today
In this "sinister, jaw-dropping" (Sarah Penner, author of The Lost
Apothecary) debut novel, a circle of researchers uncover a mysterious
deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met
Cloisters.
When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her
summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic
museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group
of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination.
Desperate to escape her painful past, Ann is happy to indulge the
researchers' more outlandish theories about the history of fortune
telling. But what begins as academic curiosity quickly turns into
obsession when Ann discovers a hidden 15th-century deck of tarot cards
that might hold the key to predicting the future. When the dangerous
game of power, seduction, and ambition at The Cloisters turns deadly,
Ann becomes locked in a race for answers as the line between the arcane
and the modern blurs.
A haunting and magical blend of genres, The Cloisters is a gripping
debut that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
