Katherine Webb

Joan Seabrook, a fledgling archaeologist, longs to explore the desert fort of Jabrin, and unearth the treasures it is said to conceal. When she meets her childhood heroine, pioneering explorer Maude Vickery, Joan is seduced by Maude’s stories, and the thrill of the adventure they hold. Only too late does she question actions that will spark a potentially disastrous, chain of events...

Wiltshire, 1922. When Donny Cartwright is accused of murder, his sister Pudding is determined to discover the identity of the real killer. Together with newcomer, Irene, she begins to uncover the truth. But when they happen upon a strange object, hidden in the past, they realise it will change everything..