BOOK OF FORBIDDEN WORDS

Novel. Paris, 1552. As the printing press spreads new ideas across Europe, threatening the power of church and state, ex-nun Lysbette writes a manuscript full of dangerous ideas. New York, 1952. Milly struggles to find her way in paranoid McCarthy-era America when she finds a 400-year-old manuscript to decipher, which pulls her into a vortex of danger.