Carol Goodman

After surviving a brutal attack, Joan Lurie, who exposed a famous newspaper tycoon as a sexual predator, moves to a highly secured apartment building where she meets a ninety-six-year-old woman who witnessed an incident long ago that may be linked to the book she is writing.

Meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the day Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, four thirteen-year-olds help track down a missing book of Arthurian legends that may hold the key to preventing a second attack on American soil.