The Forgotten Cipher
(2026)(The first book in the Archivist's Code series)
A novel by Christie Winter
Some histories are erased for a reason. Some truths fight back.
Dr. Adrian Voss built his life on patterns, proof, and the belief that truth survives scrutiny. After a career-ending scandal he didn’t commit, isolation is his refuge—until he uncovers a hidden cipher in a 15th-century manuscript that no one else is meant to see.
The symbols feel familiar. Personal. Like echoes of the code his late father obsessively sketched before his unexplained death.
As Adrian digs deeper, doors open that should have stayed sealed. Colleagues turn hostile. His apartment is quietly breached. A symbol appears where no one should have access. A rival academic seems to know far more than he admits.
With the help of a guarded French restorer whose own mentor vanished, Adrian begins to suspect the unthinkable: history itself is being edited.
Every discovery fractures his sense of reality.
Is he uncovering a conspiracy—or repeating the obsession that destroyed his father?
Because someone is watching.
And if history lies, who decides what survives?
Genre: Thriller
Dr. Adrian Voss built his life on patterns, proof, and the belief that truth survives scrutiny. After a career-ending scandal he didn’t commit, isolation is his refuge—until he uncovers a hidden cipher in a 15th-century manuscript that no one else is meant to see.
The symbols feel familiar. Personal. Like echoes of the code his late father obsessively sketched before his unexplained death.
As Adrian digs deeper, doors open that should have stayed sealed. Colleagues turn hostile. His apartment is quietly breached. A symbol appears where no one should have access. A rival academic seems to know far more than he admits.
With the help of a guarded French restorer whose own mentor vanished, Adrian begins to suspect the unthinkable: history itself is being edited.
Every discovery fractures his sense of reality.
Is he uncovering a conspiracy—or repeating the obsession that destroyed his father?
Because someone is watching.
And if history lies, who decides what survives?
Genre: Thriller