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From the missing journals of archaeologist Amelia Peabody comes a share from the “missing years”—a story of adventure, courage, and terror.Readers have long questioned what befell the Emerson family throughout the decades prior to the Great War. Today, finally, the silence is shattered and the reality unveiled of the risky trip to some mystical and secret spot hidden deep within the center of the unforgiving wasteland. A journey caused by devotion to a vulnerable friend—and spurred on by lies and treachery—leads Amelia Peabody and her smart household right into a nest of vipers lying-in wait in a distant hill castle. And whenever a a mystery and a dark past are fundamentally found, a family member might be lost permanently.