Lost Chronicles of Ara-The Lost Chronicles of Ara The Mirkwood Codex

In "Creation" and "Perdition," Volumes One and Two of "The Chronicles of Ara," we learned of a series of "lost" documents that allegedly map the escape of both man and god from imminent catastrophe. When the first of these documents is discovered in London, entitled "The Mirkwood Codex," the secrets contained therein expose far more than expected. Centuries ago, a telling section of "Beowulf" was composed in a strange, almost Elvish language and discreetly hidden. In 1939, decades prior to author J.R.R. Tolkien authenticating the document in "Creation," the Nazis infiltrated Bletchley, believing the sought-after book of legend to be present within the walls of its top-secret spy compound. To plumb the secrets of the lost book, esteemed philologist Tolkien is mysteriously recruited by His Majesty's Secret Service to serve as a code-breaker, alongside Ian Fleming, Alan Turing, Kim Philby and Winston Churchill. When his service is soon terminated and all records of his Bletchley activity erased, however, the muse Ara suddenly emerges with a grave secret she has strived to keep quiet, a secret that threatens to derail one deadly plot but initiate another: a war far grander than even she could have previously imagined ...