Wyntertide Av Andrew Caldecott

<DIV><B>Welcome back to Rotherweird, where an ancient plot centuries in the making is about to come to fruition - and this time the forces of darkness might actually win . . .</B></DIV><B><DIV><br></DIV>"Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn. Line by line, silent and adroit, it opens a series of trap-doors in the reader''s imagination" </B><B>--Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize-winning author of <I>Wolf Hall</I></B><br><br>The town of Rotherweird has been independent from the rest of England for four hundred years, to protect a deadly secret.<br><br>Sir Veronal Slickstone is dead, his bid to exploit that secret consigned to dust, leaving Rotherweird to resume its abnormal normality after the travails of the summer . . . but someone is playing a <I>very </I>long game.<br><br>Disturbing omens multiply: a funeral delivers a cryptic warning; an ancient portrait speaks; the Herald disappears - and democracy threatens the uneasy covenant between town and countryside.<br><br>Geryon Wynter''s intricate plot, centuries in the making, is on the move.<br><br>Everything points to one objective: the resurrection of Rotherweird''s dark Elizabethan past - and to one date: the Winter Solstice.<br><br><B>Wynter is coming . . .</B><br><br><br>