A mysterious Renaissance manuscript, written in seven languages, with acrostics and anagrams, cryptograms and literary puzzles, is the key to the mystery of missing ancient Roman treasures?! Scientists have been struggling to decipher this manuscript for 500 years, but only now four Princeton students have managed to get closer others come to the solution...But will they be able to complete the matter? The discoveries they make will shock even them. Immersed in the world of the past, where there was a place for exquisite literary exercises, and strange carnal games, and unimaginable cruelty, they suddenly realize that this world is drawing them in deeper and deeper. When a series of inexplicable murders rocks the university campus, it becomes clear to them: the secret of the manuscript hides contains a DEADLY DANGER...