Claim: In the Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, the debut novel by Katherine Howe which was a New York Times bestseller,  Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin tries to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation, but she has to take care of the sale of her grandmother's home, where she discovers an ancient key.
Evidence: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (2009) is the first novel of American author Katherine Howe. It debuted at number two on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestseller list on June 20, 2009. Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. As Connie is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, she discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible.