In Lukman Clark's The Wind Rose Conspiracy, Brandon Blake is living on inherited money after his parents’ plane vanished over the Timor Sea when a hypnosis session sends him toward a Libyan cave. There, he finds ancient scrolls linked to Hypatia of Alexandria, a philosopher...

Hypatia by Lukman Clark begins in fourth-century Egypt, where a girl named Tuya lives beside the Nile with her Kushite mother and Macedonian soldier father. After her father disappears, a catastrophic sea surge tears Tuya away from home, family, and the name she was born...