Trust No One by James Rollins

This standalone novel starts with an eighteenth-century mystic and occultist, the Comte de Saint-Germain, surrendering his journal to Marie Antoinette’s lady-in-waiting for safekeeping. Centuries later, the guardian of the book is brutally murdered but not before shipping the book off to the next guardian.

Terrified that the killers know the identity and location of the new guardian, a British professor entrusts the book to one of his star pupils, Sharyn Karr. From that moment, she is marked by killers who are always one step ahead of her. She and a small group of students must flee England all the while trying to decipher the secrets of the book. The information within the journal can topple governments or change mankind again, but it’s a race that Sharyn must win or die trying.

This is an exciting story that reads like Indiana Jones meeting Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon in a treasure hunt of the century. Hang on to your seat, because it’s a wild ride.