The Monsters of Templeton pax arcana But a plot to save

But a plot to save the world by bringing down empires swiftly escalates into a conspiracy of magic and vengeance that threatens to burn everything to ash

of faith and family and the invisible ties that bind us to each other

peopled by the fantastic figures so familiar from Waugh's early satires

In a text that's both playful and loving

over half a century old

The Monsters of Templeton pax arcana But a plot to save"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of