The implications are staggering, but soon after the discovery, Stuart disappears, making him one of several psychometrists who have died mysteriously in recent months or vanished without a trace. Stuart, a fellow pyschometrist and Roan's close friend, has just unearthed several 'ooparts': out-of-place artifacts that challenge recorded history, including a ring belonging to the seventeenth-century mathematician and philosopher Rene Descartes that was found buried in prehistoric bedrock. He has spent his life as a voyeur, using his talents to find and sell valuable antiques, but his quiet life in New Orleans is about to change.

A highly skilled psychometrist, Roan is able to perceive the past of any object he touches. Roan West was born with an extraordinary gift: he can relive memories across centuries and glean history first-hand. Semele realizes it’s up to her to stop them: the manuscript holds the key to a two-thousand-year-old secret, a secret someone will do anything to possess.Travel through time with the touch of a hand. The auction date is swiftly approaching, and someone wants to interfere-someone who knows the cards exist, and that the Bossard manuscript is tied to her. Yet Theo is arrogant and elusive, concealing secrets of his own, and there’s more to Semele’s desire to speak with him than she would like to admit. Only one person can help her make sense of it all: her client, Theo Bossard. But what happened to the tarot deck? As the mystery of her connection to its story deepens, Semele can’t shake the feeling that she’s being followed. The more she reads, the more the manuscript begins to affect Semele’s life. Both a memoir and a prophecy, it appears to be the work of a powerful seer, describing devastating wars and natural disasters in detail thousands of years before they occurred. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further, she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems.

Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, deciphering ancient texts-and when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career.

The fortune teller by gwendolyn womack