While in Baltimore, a young doctor Isabella Raymond's husband mysteriously disappears one evening as they walked in a park. The elderly librarian Sterling offers to help uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of Ryan. As Isabella and her best friend Meredith sought explanations from a sibylline man, they are stunned to discover that there was more to Ryan than Isabella knew. The signs have been there all along and yet inventively disguised by Ryan.Even more startling, Ryan is part of a secret society called The Acme Order-a society whose affiliates include Sterling, Gaea, and Aleister Crowley-and he hid for many years a magnificent secret. Unless Isabella and Meredith can find Ryan while avoiding the daunting Gracchus, an adversary who risks everything to stop the progress of Isabella and Meredith, Ryan will be lost forever.
