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Aging poet Edward Nesbit and his young lover, Laura, are obsessively researching the lives of Sir Henry Agnew and his daughter Louisa. Alex Darken is drawn into their fervent quest for knowledge, and soon Alex finds himself entangled in a passionate and intense intrigue that reaches across two centuries.