Dimensions
133 x 156 x 25mm
In Sydney, the past lies close to the surface. History student, Jacqueline Cooper, is about to find out that not everything buried is dead.
Two bodies bricked up in an old cellar, and a cache of mysterious old papers, lead her – and the reader – on a journey into a mysterious past.
In 1919 Sydney is in the grip of the Spanish Flu – and perhaps something worse. Further back, in 1789, the tiny settlement hangs by a thread amidst starvation and smallpox, and seems beset by the forces of evil.
When Jackie discovers the papers have been stolen and her flatmate – gone inexplicably insane – nearly kills her, she knows the history lesson just got real.
Outbreaks of irrationality and violence have Sydney in terror of a new plague, and time is running out on all fronts. Caught up in a whirlwind of examinations and autopsies, quarantine and riot control, Jackie realises that if anyone is to be saved, she must get to the truth. But a city of madmen is trying to stop her...
