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The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters.When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination. Desperate to escape her painful past, Ann is happy to indulge the researchers' more outlandish theories about the history of fortune telling. But what begins as academic curiosity quickly turns into obsession when Ann discovers a hidden 15th-century deck of tarot cards that might hold the key to predicting the future.



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Katy Hays

Katy Hays is a writer and adjunct art history professor in California, where she teachesrural students from Truckee to Tecopa. She holds an MA in art history from WilliamsCollege and pursued her PhD at UC Berkeley. Having previously worked at major artinstitutions, including The Clark Art Institute and SF MoMA, she now lives with herhusband and their dog, Queso, in Olympic Valley, California.



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