Secrets of the Scrolls

Some secrets are written in ash. Others in silence.

When forensic archaeologist Dr Jeannie MacLean joins a prestigious excavation near Herculaneum, she expects a season of quiet discovery. Instead, she unearths a cache of carbonised scrolls that threaten to rewrite history - and unravel her own life.

The scrolls are not the philosophical works her team craves but the writings of a slave-scribe, a man whose voice was never meant to survive. As Jeannie fights to preserve his testimony, she collides with academic ambition, buried desire, and the predatory politics of power.

When a senior researcher demands sexual favours in exchange for access to the scrolls’ technology, Jeannie must decide what integrity - and survival - really mean. Her choices will echo through both the living and the dead.

From the shadows of Vesuvius to the sterile glow of modern laboratories, Secrets of the Scrolls entwines ancient injustice with contemporary reckoning. Told with forensic precision and emotional intelligence, it explores how knowledge can liberate - or destroy - the people who seek it.