Palimpsest

The ink isn't fading. It's moving.

Mercer Cole is a master of silence and restoration. As the lead conservator at St. Jude's Scriptorium, he has spent his life coaxing secrets from the past, specializing in "Palimpsests"-ancient manuscripts where the original text was scraped away to make room for the new. When he receives a blind commission to restore the Codex Corium, a volume found in a flooded Prague cellar, he views it as the pinnacle of his career.

But the Codex is different. Bound in a...