
Length12h 44m
About this audiobook
Some discoveries change history. Others change the way we understand it.
When computational linguist Mara Szabo begins examining twelve ancient parchment leaves, she expects a difficult scholarly puzzle. What she uncovers is something far more consequential: a chain of evidence stretching across millennia, connecting forgotten manuscripts, a mysterious cave in Oman, revolutionary networks, secret archives and institutions determined to protect their reputations.
As the evidence accumulates, Mara faces an uncomfortable question. What happens when the truth threatens not only established scholarship, but the foundations upon which entire traditions are built?
With every discovery comes another question, another hidden connection, and another reason to hesitate before revealing what she knows.
Because finding the truth is one thing. Deciding when the world is ready to hear it is something else entirely.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length12 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 13, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A finding
2Ivory Wild
3Before — Amsterdam, January 2026
4Part One — The Structural Anomaly
5Chapter One — Amsterdam
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6Chapter Two — New Haven
7Chapter Three — The Paper
8Chapter Four — Muscat
9Chapter Five — The Response
10Interlude — Lena Brouwer
11Chapter Six — Brookline
12Chapter Seven — The Letter
13Part Two — The Twelve Leaves
14Chapter Eight — Dhofar
15Chapter Nine — Colonel Shalev
16Chapter Nine and a Half — Lena Brouwer, Again
17Chapter Ten — The Bureau File
18Chapter Eleven — Jerusalem
19Chapter Twelve — What Al-Rashidi Found
20Chapter Thirteen — The Drawer
21Chapter Fourteen — Three Copies
22Chapter Fifteen — Rotterdam
23Chapter Sixteen — Fatima
24Chapter Seventeen — What Mara Got Wrong
25Chapter Eighteen — The Provenance Review
26Chapter Nineteen — Lena in Oman
27Chapter Twenty — Professor Elias, Again
28Chapter Twenty-One — The Vatican
29Chapter Twenty-Two — Anna
30Chapter Twenty-Three — Joost
31Chapter Twenty-Four — Heinrich Brandt
32Chapter Twenty-Five — The Week After
33Chapter Twenty-Six — Shalev, One More Time
34Coda: March Part 1
35Coda: March Part 2
36Coda: March Part 3
37Author’s Note
38And Some of Our Other Titles
39Chapter 39