Publisher's Synopsis
Rab, a troubled youngster, battles the chaos of his world in 2018. Born into a life of neglect, poverty and violence, his volatile emotions pull him between a future marked out by crime and his unrecognised artistic talent.
This fourteen year old boy with special needs is unwittingly thrust into an adventure revolving around a dangerous gang of drug dealers, a young girl on the run from the authorities and a treasure trail. Torn between loyalty to his family and his own suffocating rage Rab's life revolves around his school, being placed in a secure children's home and a temporary foster placement. Can he work out the mystery of the Griffin family? Five centuries earlier lady Mary fights her own form of captivity in the year 1485. a noblewoman on the run from an oppressive suitor, she escapes into a self imposed exile as an anchoress nun, sealing herself within a church to claim her autonomy. But Sir Richard, now a powerful knight- will stop at nothing to possess both Mary and the Griffin ancestral lands. Within the walls of her cell, Mary faces not only the physical confines of her new life but the spiritual and emotional toll of isolation. A meeting with Thomas More affords her a chance to leave a legacy. Bob, a badly wounded world war one pilot is send for experimental plastic surgery 1918. He manages to uncover some of the puzzle around the family, but does he inadvertently add to its complexities? The story revolves around these three eras and each sub plot adds layers to the puzzle that Rab manages to untangle in 2018.
