The Golden Manuscripts: A Novel (Between Two Worlds Book 6)

Clarissa, an Asian/Caucasian young woman has lived in seven different countries, and has no lasting connection to any place. She thinks it’s time to find a home. But where? 

She joins a quest for the provenance of stolen illuminated manuscripts—a medieval art form that languished with the fifteenth century invention of the printing press—hoping it would give her the sense of belonging she craves. Will it be enough?

The trail leads to an American soldier who served in World War II. She’s anxious to know what motivated him to steal and keep the artwork for fifty years. But instead of easy answers, she finds bigger questions. 

Immersed in art, but naïve about life, she’s disheartened and disillusioned by what the quest reveals of an esoteric, sometimes unscrupulous art world. Why do individuals steal artworks, and conquerors plunder them from the vanquished? Who decides the value of an art piece and how?

The Golden Manuscripts: A Novel is based on the actual theft of medieval manuscripts during WW II.