Ambitious geologist Ross Kelly has it all-a lucrative career searching for oil across the world and a beautiful, brilliant wife, Lauren, pregnant with their first child. But when Lauren, a Yale academic, deciphers the university s mysterious Voynich manuscript, which has confounded experts for centuries, everything changes. n attempt to steal her translation of the Voynich leaves Lauren and their unborn child hovering on the brink of death, and Ross in the depths of despair. Encounters with a sinister Vatican priest and then a mysterious nun convince Ross to seek salvation in the four-and-a-half-centuries-old manuscript, which chronicles the ill-fated discovery of a mythic, fabulous garden, deep in the jungles of the New World-an Eden so terrible and miraculous it rewrites the book of Genesis and defies all reason. lthough everyone tells him the story is surely an allegory, the possibility of the garden s existence offers Ross the only hope of saving Lauren and their unborn child.With a ragbag group of confederates, each with their own motivations, he decides to seek the garden out before it s too late. ut he is not alone Racing against time, a lethal assassin and a fanatica