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BOOK SUMMARIES
The first casualty of any war is truth. The second casualty is friendship as people
examine their own principles and take sides according to their conscience. Up till now, the Legacy and their allies
have walked parallel paths but when those paths become opposed, friends become
bitter enemies, and those caught in the middle are faced with conflicting
loyalties. In The Gray and the Black, Derek
and Merlin go one on one – over the immortal soul of a child.
When signs of mental illness start to appear in her
colleagues, Rachel is the obvious person to find out why – and the first thing
she discovers is that she is affected too.
The team has to pull together, even as it falls apart, and they start to
realize there is another place – a place of darkness where there are no rules,
the opposite to their world of light.
Derek, Rachel, Alex and Nick battle their way to understanding .. and
the terrifying truth they have known all along – that, if they are to regain
their freedom, they must confront and beat their attacker in the only place
they have a chance of winning: Between the Dark and the
Light.
Desert Dunes, west Texas. A small town, miles from anywhere, and, yet, now, the focus for miracles. Over the past ten months, the population has soared from 200 to 8,000, and more people arrive every day. The reason – Brother Luke had chosen this forgotten town as the location for his Church of the Martyrs. Brother Luke and his two assistants, Brother Peter and Brother David, were special. People were already saying God had touched them and given them divine powers. Nothing else could explain how they could do what they did. When Nick joins the Enforcers for their annual training week, it’s to Desert Dunes they go .. because it’s there that people are going to witness The Death of Saints.
It was one of ‘those’ situations – more than strange, it was weird. Everyone had seen it but no one could explain it. It was, like Blood From A Stone, impossible by any definition of the word. And it was also a major problem. Fortunately, the Luna Foundation was a short distance away and the people there thrived on weird. While Nick and Merlin remain on Angel Island and are drawn into a potentially lethal game of cat and mouse, Alex and Derek are called to Hidden Valley in an attempt to solve the mystery of the house which wouldn’t die.
To Cast A Long Shadow means that, somewhere, wheels are turning. The shadow lengthens and grows deeper, darker. From a single seed of death, a monstrous plot is born. If it succeeds, it won’t mean the end of the world, just the destruction of everyone in the San Francisco Legacy house. So why are they doing all they can to help this darkness to grow?
Late September.
Summer’s finally come to the City by the Bay. It’s also brought a batch of newspaper reports about the ghost
ship which appears along the Central Coast.
Will it show up again this year?
Nick wants to be there if it does.
Derek decides to go with him, leaving Alex in the hot seat. A few days later, she gets a call ... In A Sea Of Trouble,
Alex finds herself leading the investigation – not into the ghost ship but into
the disappearance of her colleagues.
Can Alex piece the puzzle together before their time runs out?
Dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives on September 11,
2001.
It’s Christmas Eve at the San Francisco Legacy
House. The house is lit, the trees look
festive, everyone’s in bed and Santa’s about to call, bearing gifts .. but
these gifts aren’t usual. These gifts
are very extraordinary because they answer a question. In The Chimes At Midnight,
a special type of magic comes to the residents of Angel Island.
After concluding an investigation, the Legacy team (plus one) start for home but it’s a long journey, it’s late and the snow’s getting thicker. Eventually, they have to stop to wait out the storm, taking shelter in an old, closed, roadside diner. To pass the time, they tell each other stories ... Only trouble is, they’re not the only ones listening. Adding to the fun is a bunch of lonely, bored, restless spirits – the Fried Green Ghosts of the Mountain Pass Cafe. Anyone say food fight?
Wheel Of Fire
Part I: Blood Genesis – chronicles the historic first meeting of the Flamefalls with the ‘scholars’, otherwise known as the Legacy, and goes into their turbulent first years, over one thousand years before the birth of Christ.
Part II: Blood Price – brings us more up to date – the middle 1940s to middle 1950s, and covers the impossible: what brings a Flamefall to cross the line.
Part III: Blood Debt – the present day and concludes the threads started in I and II. A battle is coming between Heaven and Hell, when brother confronts brother. A battle is coming on Earth, when Flamefall goes against Flamefall. It’s time for retribution and payback .. but there are no guarantees. This is an evil the world has never seen before and, without the help of their old allies, the Flamefalls might not survive.
No plan is ever set in stone so it’s a good thing Legacy members can adapt quickly. In Roses In December, Alex takes Jack north of the border and has to deal with the fallout, Derek and Pete Miller help Nick with a request from the Tokyo Legacy house which begins innocently enough but soon involves the strange death of a flight crew, Merlin takes Kat with her on vacation to Hawaii and both run into old ‘friends’ while Rachel’s invitation to speak at a conference in London finds her meeting a tall, dark, mysterious stranger …
Coming next:
The Counting House
The war between good and evil has been fought for millennia but people aren’t usually asked to choose sides. In The Counting House, Nick and Merlin, Alex and Philip have to do just that – choose sides and, surprisingly, it isn’t an easy choice to make. But, if they don’t, they’ll never escape the town beneath the strange house on the hill, the town where this war is all that is ever fought …
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THE FLAMEFALL DIARIES
January 5, 1980 Arctonyx
September 22, 1995 Cygnus
May 2, 1996 Aquila