In 1696, Christopher Ellis, a young,hot-tempered gentleman, is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner.A sudden twist of fate has led him there to assist the renowned scientist SirIsaac Newton, who as Warden of the Royal Mint has accepted an appointment tohunt down counterfeiters who threaten to topple the shaky, war-weakenedeconomy. Armed with Newton’s superior intellect and Ellis’s skill with a sword,the new partners seem primed to solve the case. But when their investigationleads them to a mysterious coded message on a corpse hidden in the Lion Tower,they realize that something more sinister is afoot. In the heat of theirpursuit, Newton and Ellis’s suspicions become all too real as the body countrises and the duo uncovers a menacing far-reaching plot that might lead to thecollapse of the government—and cost them their very lives. An extraordinary,suspense-filled, and richly satisfying tale, Dark Matter is an engrossing mystery infusedwith the volatile mix of politics, science, and religion that characterizedlife in seventeenth-century London.