"Crowley crafts images and scenes that are exceptionally vivid. A joy to revisit" - Goodreads Reviewer

"This is a marvellous book. Well written, well researched and based on the most intriguing historical facts" - Amazon Reviewer

In the 1970s, an historian named Pierce Moffett moves to the New England countryside to write a book about Ægypt, driven by an idea he dare not believe: that wondrous and magical powers once governed the universe; that the physical laws of this universe once changed and may yet change again.

The notion is not his alone. Something waits at the locked estate of Fellowes Kraft - author of romances about Will Shakespeare and Giordano Bruno and Dr. John Dee - something for which Pierce and those near him have long sought without knowing it: a key, perhaps, to Ægypt...