New York: Delacorte, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a young adult fantasy, a tale of hidden myths and dangerous knowledge. "In an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The volume is blank, wordless, but its paper has fine veins running through it and seems to quiver, as if it's alive. Words begin to appear on the page--words no one but the boy can see. And so unfolds a timeless secret . . . . " 392 pp. ISBN: 0-385733801.