About the Book
A mysterious fragment of a lost opera, a murder, and a shadowy occult society known as the Illuminati, more than two centuries old, set the stage for young Ted Wheeler’s inadvertent plunge into a tug of war between light and darkness. Where is the king’s ransom in Ottoman gold paid to murder an Austrian Emperor? Why was the death of a famous composer faked? Ted and his friends must unravel the mystery of a piece of torn musical score, a tantalizing fragment of a melody so beautiful that it could only have come from the hand of a Master. While they seek answers and devise a plan to find the rest of the missing score, darker forces are at work seeking to stop them, forces with roots in the secret Masonic lodges of 18th-Century Vienna. At stake are the unknown location of a fortune, perhaps even their lives, and the truth about how one of the world’s greatest composers became entangled in a web of evil, deceit, and possibly regicide.