Book description
Some secrets are best kept hidden...
Nick Paleologus is summoned to resolve a dispute that threatens to
tear his family apart. His father, Michael, is a retired archaeologist
and supposed descendant of the last Emperors of Byzantium. Michael has
received a hugely generous offer for the family home in Cornwall, but
refuses to sell - and refuses to divulge why.
But soon the stalemate between Nick's siblings and their father is
tragically broken. And only then do they discover why their father was
bound to protect the house at all costs.
Their desperate efforts to conceal the truth drag them into a deadly
conflict with an unseen and unknown enemy. Soon, Nick realises the
only chance they have of escaping from their persecutor's trap is to
hunt this ruthless adversary down. But the hunt involves excavating a
terrible secret from their father's past. And once that secret is
known, nothing will ever be the same again.
Robert Goddard was born in Hampshire. He read History at Cambridge
and worked as an educational administrator in Devon before becoming a
full-time novelist. He is the author of many bestselling novels,
including Into the Blue which won the first WH Smith Thumping Good Read
Award and was dramatized for TV in 1997, starring John Thaw.
