Marked by Time - Couverture souple

Robertson, Philip

 
9781066699803: Marked by Time

Synopsis

FIVE THOUSAND YEARS FELL AWAY.

Victorian London hides many things. Morgan Llewellyn hides more than most.

London, 1893. When a desperate aristocrat begs private enquiry agent Morgan Llewellyn to find his missing son, the case seems simple enough: a brilliant young scholar, a ransacked room, and research into an ancient cult no respectable academic would take seriously.

Then Henry Whetham's body is pulled from the Thames.

The police are eager to call it an accident. Morgan knows murder when he sees it — and he has seen more of it than any man should. With the help of Isabelle Foster, a fiercely intelligent medical student fighting for her place in a man's world, he follows the trail Henry left behind: stolen papers, carved symbols, whispered rituals, and a secret society obsessed with a power they believe has slept since the Neolithic.

From the fog-bound streets of London to the storm-lashed stones of Orkney, Morgan and Isabelle uncover a conspiracy protected by blood, silence, and murder.

Because Henry Whetham was not killed for what he knew. He was killed for what he almost understood.

And the closer Morgan comes to the truth, the more he begins to fear that the past is not merely waiting to be found.

It is waiting for him.

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Marked by Time is the first novel in Saeculum, a trilogy of literary historical fantasy spanning Victorian London, the trenches of the Western Front, and the long shadow of an older catastrophe.

For readers of Susanna Clarke, Natasha Pulley, Deborah Harkness, and Claire North.

A note from the author: Marked by Time is my debut novel. Books Two and Three of the Saeculum trilogy are in progress.

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