Nora Kane is scholarship student at Chapman Prep when she gets an opportunity to work with her best friends, Chris and Adriane, and boyfriend, Max on a centuries old manuscript. Nora's motivation for working on the manuscript is that she can spend time with her friends and it will look great on her college applications. Everything changes in one night when Chris is found dead, Adriane is catatonic, and Max is missing. The police think Max is the murderer. In an attempt to find Max and prove his innocence, Nora decides to follow a trail of clues that begin with the manuscript and the ancient mysteries it contains. These clues lead her to Prague and warring secret societies who believe the manuscript holds the key of how to communicate directly with God. Will she find Max and is he innocent? Does Nora hold the key to figuring out the manuscript's divine secrets? "The Book of Blood and Shadows" is a thrilling, heart-pounding read.