The Map in the Wrong Suitcase

A lost navigation instrument. Two mismatched clues. One very inconvenient luggage mix-up. When British Museum antiquities specialist Lady Cecily Ashford arrives in Alexandria, an exchanged suitcase connects her to Josephine Quinn, an American antiquities seeker carrying a questionable clients folder. Its route sketch may lead to the Cartographers Rose, a long-lost instrument said to have been kept at a desert waystation—and someone is already trying to get the papers back. With local scholar Mariam Haddads expertise and the help of people who know the route and its history, Cecily and Jo follow a sequence of observations inland. Their different strengths make a wary partnership possible: Cecily weighs records and material evidence, while Jo brings field experience and practical nerve. But a polished dealers offer comes with a suspiciously specific detail, and the expedition must decide what matters more than the prize itself. Witty, suspenseful, and rich with period atmosphere, this worldwide antiquities adventure pairs puzzles and peril with the first quiet stirrings of a gradual romance. The searchs answer rests not on legend, but on evidence, cooperation, and respect for the people who have a say in the artifacts future.