Publisher Description
Horace Holly is staring into a mirror, ruefully measuring his ugliness, when a knock comes near midnight. His only friend staggers in with a massive iron box—and blood on his lips.
In his Cambridge rooms, the solitary scholar is asked to take charge of a five-year-old boy and a chest holding the secret of an ancient family. The dying father traces their line back to Kallikrates, a Greek priest who fled Egypt and was murdered in Africa by a beautiful white queen. Holly has no idea what the box contains, or why his friend’s disastrous expedition has left him so close to death. But the boy is the last heir—and the old story is not finished with his family. What lies inside the iron chest, and what will it demand of its new guardian?
With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.
Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.
