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Through Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian novels, an incredible number of readers have enjoyed the pleasures and intrigue of a bygone era. Today, with the debut of an exceptional new series, this New York Times-Bestselling writer sweeps us in to the golden summer of 1914, a period of short enchantment when British men and ladies basked in the protection of money and strength, even while the final months of the honored planet were quickly moving. Theirs was a serenity that resulted in war.On a warm morning in late June, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is summoned from the student cricket match to understand that his parents have died within an car accident. Joseph’s buddy, Matthew, as officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father have been on the way to London to show to him a mysterious secret document—allegedly using the capacity to disgrace England permanently and destroy the civilized world.