Nora has three friends;Max, Chris, and Adrian. All of them except Adrain work at Hoff's office translating latin letters. Nora is spending most of her time either translating the letters, or going to school. Then something mysterious happens. Nora and Max were at Hoff's office when they heard a noise. When they discovered where it had came from, there was a broken in window lined with blood. Later on, Nora and Max become boyfriend and girlfriend in a way. Several days after that had happened, the Hoff had a stroke in his office and all the letters and translations were missing. When Nora visited the Hoff in the hospital, he said "You're the one!" and "Lay da chee!". She just thought he was talking nonsense but who knows.
The friends decide to have a movie night at Chris's house. Nora had shown up late a found something gruesome. Chris lied on the floor face down in a pool of blood; stab wounds in his back. Next to him was Adrian with her knees to her chest staring straight ahead. She didn't see Max, but she did find the note she gave to Chris for him to return it. She wanted to find the answers to all of this. Several days after the "Murder", Adrian became herself again, but she didn't remember anything that happened that night, not even that Chris is dead. Nora needed more clues to why all this happened, so she searched through Max and Chris's dorm room and found a note she decoded as a riddle of some sort. Adrian and Nora decide to go on the field trip to Paris because Nora got a letter from Max saying to meet her in Prague. Max told them (almost) everything that happened. Now they are on the hunt to find the Lumen Dei, a machine that can speak to God.
