She buried the past... but it refused to stay there.

 

Eleanor MacLean has outlived everyone who might have believed her story. She’s in possession of a secret no living person knows. For decades she has carried the impossible weight of years lived in medieval England—a love left behind in the stone corridors of a medieval castle and knowledge of the lost crown jewels of England that no modern woman should possess.

 

She thought silence was enough. She thought if she simply never said it aloud, the past would stay where she left it.She was wrong.

 

When word breaks that the treasure lost by King John in 1216 has been located, Eleanor’s quiet life cracks open. She knows exactly what is buried in that quicksand—because she was there when it was lost.Now, for the first time in 60 years, Eleanor is going to have to tell the truth.

 

The year is 1964. One moment she’s laughing with her friend, entirely certain of who she is. The next, she’s lying on the ground at a real medieval battle—with a knight on a white warhorse bearing down on her with a raised sword.What follows is a sweeping journey into the vivid, dangerous world of medieval England, where the court of King John seethes with betrayal, where loyalty is the rarest currency, and where an ordinary woman must find a way to survive in a world that has no place for her.

 

And in present-day England, the man with the metal detector is getting closer. Eleanor knows what he is going to find—and what will be missing. Some people, even now, even in this century, will stop at nothing to possess not just the treasure, but the full truth of its history.

 

Knowledge that only one woman alive holds.Will her love rewrite history—or destroy her future?