An immortal Muse whose very survival depends on the creativity she nurtures within her loversAnother immortal who feeds not on artistry but on pain and torment…A chase through time from 1300s Paris to contemporary New York, with two people bound together in enmity and furyWhen magic and science are melded together, an array of the famous and infamousfrom Bernini to Vivaldi, from Lavoisier and Robespierre to William Blake, from Gustav Klimt to Charlotte Salomonwill be caught up unawares in this ages-long battle