Book Review: You, Me & The Conspiracy by Emma Barry
Official Synopsis: After a bruising book rejection, tenure-track history professor Jessica Wilson is scrambling for something new to publish to secure her spot at the top of the academic food chain. While researching in the archives, she discovers a coded message written by one of the founding fathers with the power to change her—and the world’s—understanding of American history forever. But first, she’s got to prove it’s real.
Desperate for answers, Jess searches out Calloway Morgan, a Harvard PhD student turned adjunct professor. Cal was forced to leave graduate school after presenting theories about a shadowy revolutionary organization. Jess heard his conference presentation and thought his findings were absurd, but now, she believes he was onto something.
With their fates intertwined by their discoveries, the two begin to work together, but danger lurks around every corner. The clandestine fraternity that they’ve uncovered still exists and is ready to kill. With it hot on their heels, the embers of Jess and Cal’s attraction grow. But unless they can make their findings public, they’ll soon become the conspiracy’s latest victims.
Jess Wilson is apart of a famous historian family and has been spending most of her life trying to prove she belongs, but now her fight for tenure seems to be slipping away as her book was rejected. While researching a new topic to write about, looking for something that will change her career she ends up finding an encoded message that feels like something out of National Treasure. What Jess doesn't expect is that this coded message will bring her to the office of Calloway Morgan, who left Harvard after being laughed out of a conference where he presented about something similar. Cal has all but given up on the messages, especially after it led to him losing a good job, but something about exploring the ideas with Jess is enticing.
But the research ends up putting them in danger, and after Jess's advisor is killed they need to hide. They know too much and now a society of historical families might be after them. But the information is also important, and maybe if they can release the information before the society can find them then they will be safe...right? Now Jess and Cal are stuck together in a small Winnebago, researching the society that is trying to kill them while also learning more about their own families.
It also doesn't help that they find each other attractive and are stuck with a lot of free time...
I thought this book was a really fun idea, but at times it felt dense with history and the events that were happening. I really liked both Jess and Cal, even with their complicated family history's. One this that I wish made more sense, at least to me, was the ending. It felt like everything got wrapped up really quick after spending most of the story hiding.
I rated this book 3.5 out of 5 stars!
You, Me & The Conspiracy comes out November 3, 2026!
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