Author of Historical Fiction and Literary Thrillers
Part Indiana Jones, part Robert Langdon.Inside the ruins of an Egyptian monastery, archaeologist Nathan Ashford unearths a 3,000-year-old riddle.To decode it, he needs the help of brilliant linguist Eve Sommerville.To survive it, he’ll need more than luck.A rogue Vatican order will stop at nothing to keep it buried.A fast-moving, #1 bestselling historical thriller.
COMING IN 2027
For six hundred years, no one could decipher the Voynich Manuscript.When Eve Sommerville cracks a single page, she sets in motion something she cannot stop.
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Marie Hermetz writes adventure fiction that braids historical mysteries with modern stakes, and is drawn to the questions that won’t leave her alone: who decides what history remembers, and whose voices get erased?A French transplant to South Carolina, she shares her life with her husband, a rescue mutt named Raven, and more half-finished craft projects than she will admit.
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About the author
I thought the hardest part about writing a novel was... well, writing the novel.Turns out, it’s feeling weirdly exposed when you finally share it.But some stories need to exist.I write adventure fiction that weaves together historical mysteries and modern stakes.My debut novel, Solomon’s Wisdom, became an Amazon Best Seller and is the first in a series following linguist Eve Sommerville and archaeologist Nathan Ashford as they uncover a forbidden message King Solomon buried three millennia ago, one some people will kill to keep hidden.The second, The Voynich Heresy, arrives in 2027, and more of Nathan and Eve’s adventures are already underway.I’m drawn to stories that ask uncomfortable questions. Who decides what history remembers? Whose voices were silenced? Which “truths” survive?After a long journey from elsewhere, South Carolina is now home. I share my life with my husband, who crossed an ocean to be with me twenty years ago, and Raven, our little rescue mutt who thinks life is one long celebration.I’m a Jane-of-all-crafts and master of none: gardening, painting, vermicomposting, mixed-media art, biking. My husband calls me a butterfly because I never land on one thing for long. I’m also a very lucky mommy and nana!
I write to give life to the questions that won’t leave me alone.If something in these pages sparks reflection in you, I’ll consider that a job well done.
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SOLOMON'S WISDOM
Part Indiana Jones, part Robert Langdon.An ancient message buried by King Solomon. Some words are worth killing for.Inside the ruins of a 3rd-century Christian monastery, archaeologist Nathan Ashford uncovers the impossible: a Phoenician tablet sealed within its walls alongside human remains. Two civilizations, a thousand years apart, never meant to meet.To decode the tablet's ancient script, he turns to Eve Somerville, a brilliant linguist with a secular edge. But their discovery draws a ruthless adversary with centuries of power and a history of silencing threats.With the help of an unlikely ally, Nathan and Eve follow the clues into the Jordanian desert, toward a revelation buried since the reign of King Solomon, one the world was not ready to face.From ancient Jerusalem to modern-day Egypt, their journey reveals that truth was never the threat. Fear was.
FACTS VS. FICTION
Get the free Fact vs. Fiction companion guide to uncover the genuine biblical mysteries, forbidden texts, and ancient secrets that inspired Solomon's Wisdom.
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THE VOYNICH HERESY
The Voynich Manuscript has been silent for six hundred years, defying every scholar, cryptographer, and codebreaker who tried to decipher it.When Eve Sommerville cracks a single page, she sets in motion something she cannot stop.The page holds the key to a staggering discovery: a blueprint to something the modern world desperately needs.Eve, her estranged partner, Nathan, and a brilliant but chaotic physicist, Linus, will race to survive an enemy with unlimited resources, who will stop at nothing to seize its power.The manuscript has kept more than one secret. Somewhere in its silence is the memory of those who died to protect it six centuries ago.
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THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT - THE BOOK NO ONE CAN READ
Carbon-dated to the early 1400s, the original manuscript is currently housed at Yale’s Beinecke Library, under locked glass.
The entire manuscript has been digitized.
Images courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Excerpt from THE VOYNICH HERESY
Chapter 4 - The What Manuscript[…]“I think it’s a page from the Voynich manuscript.”Linus paused, fork halfway to his mouth. “The what manuscript?”“Voynich. V-O-Y-N-I-C-H,” Eve spelled out. “It’s a fifteenth-century manuscript, a book, written on calfskin. Just like this page.”[…]“So… where’s the rest of the book?”“The original is at Yale now, under locked glass, at their rare book library.”Linus set his fork down. “And what does the book talk about?”“That’s the rub, Linus. It’s written in a language that no one’s ever been able to decipher. No one knows who wrote it. Or where. Or even what it’s supposed to say.”“What do you mean no one’s deciphered it?”“Exactly that. Cryptographers, linguists, mathematicians, even WWII codebreakers. Everyone’s had a go.”Linus cut in, “They’ve tried frequency analysis, substitution ciphers, steganography, medieval shorthand, even AI?”Eve nodded. “Yup, nothing’s cracked it.”Linus pushed his plate aside. “Wait. Yale’s copy is missing page twelve?”“Yes, it’s one of the missing pages.”[...]