When Boston private investigator Nell Prentice comes to the aid of a friend, she hopes good karma will follow and deliver a paying case. When the case appears it's with a bonus-Nell's assignment to locate a missing manuscript takes her right into the milieu of classical literature she loves. Sworn to secrecy, knowing the cost if she fails, Nell forges a path to the truth, even as her personal life moves along its own path toward a major change.