# The Secrets of Life and Death

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- Book: [The Secrets of Life and Death](https://www.bookquiver.com/rebecca-alexander/the-secrets-of-life-and-death) ([The Secrets of Life and Death.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rebecca-alexander/the-secrets-of-life-and-death.md))
- Authors: [Rebecca Alexander](https://www.bookquiver.com/rebecca-alexander)
- Publisher: del_rey
- ISBN: 978-00-9195-324-9
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2014-03-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Destined to die. Saved by Fate. 1585. When Edward Kelley and his master, Dr John Dee, discover a dark secret at the heart of the Countess Elizabeth Bathory’s illness, they fear the cure will prove more terrifying than death... 2013. When Jackdaw Hammond learns of a young woman found dead on a train, her body covered in arcane symbols, she must finish what Kelley and Dee started, or die trying...