A POTTER’S TALE: THE 2021 INDEPENDENT PRESS DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE IN SCIENCE FICTION: An ancient prediction. A modern-day murder. And it's only Monday morning.

Poor Noah Scott, Washington Post reporter and survivor of the Afghan wars. He and his partner Kate investigate the death of DiShannia Johns, a precocious teen. Her death leads them back in time to a Mayan prophecy, then propels them ahead - from Washington, DC, to London, to the underground CERN laboratories in Switzerland, and finally to a potentially monstrous act in Melbourne, Australia. It’s a journey that exposes them to a secret Vatican society touching (and sometimes ending) the lives of geniuses and presidents, prime ministers and popes. A journey that makes them confront a universe beyond their and our imagination.

It's an intelligent tale told by an ancient Mayan Codex and by the Potter Herself. It's also a right-to-the-last-page thriller.