Ann Stilwell travels to New York City with the intention of working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the summer. The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden famed for its collection of mediaeval and Renaissance art, is where she is instead sent. There, she becomes enmeshed in a tiny group of attractive but enigmatic academics, each of whom has their own goals and secrets. One of these researchers is Patrick Roland, curator of the museum, who is certain that the Tarot's past contains the key to understanding modern fortune telling. Ann is more than willing to tolerate some of Patrick's more far-fetched notions since she is relieved to have put her turbulent past behind and hungry for the admiration of her new coworkers. But when Ann finds a fascinating, long-thought-lost deck of Italian tarot cards from the fifteenth century cards she suddenly finds herself at the centre of a dangerous game of power, toxic friendship and ambition. And as the game being played within the Cloisters spirals out of control, Ann must decide whether she is truly able to defy the cards and shape her own future . . . Bringing together the modern and the arcane, The Cloisters is a rich, thrillingly told tale of obsession and the ruthless pursuit of power.