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In 1864, a band of monks from an obscure religious branch move into Chadkirk near Manchester, England, and within weeks, children start to go missing.In 2009, a minor earthquake near Manchester exposes a huge wooden beam with a sinister and intriguing inscription on it and at the same time, a series of unusual and unsettling incidents begin to occur in a wood nearby.Historic researcher Naomi Wilkes is called in to investigate and she has no idea of the horror she will uncover.

At the latter end of 2006, a well-respected, married, church Deacon discovers the possible hiding place of a huge ruby named 'The Fire of Mars'. He becomes obsessed by it and it drives his every thought, but when he meets and falls under the spell of the beautiful and bi-sexual Julie, his life begins to spiral to depths he never thought possible

Based on a true story, the once-wealthy Chance family are swindled out of their Whitewall Estate in the mid-1700s and the truth isn't discovered for nearly ninety years. In 1850 Maria Chance promises her dying father to put this injustice to rights, and is thereafter plunged into some extraordinarily dangerous and terrifying situations in mid-Victorian Britain that threaten not only her life, but her sanity too. One hundred and fifty years later, Naomi Draper, the Head of the local Council's Historic Research Department, causes a long forgotten document case to be opened, and she too is immediately plunged into a web of intrigue surrounding ownership of the now named Whitewall Farm. As she and her diverse range of friends and allies begin to unravel the mystery, it soon becomes apparent that some very powerful people don't want the truth disclosed, and that they are prepared to do anything to suppress it.

After the events surrounding Whitewall Estate and her kidnap at the hands of Adrian Darke at Cragg Vale, Naomi Wilkes is looking forward to a well overdue rest. With her marriage stronger than ever and the thought of a child on the way, things have never looked brighter - but when the name 'Malaterre' comes to the fore again, along with mysterious, cryptic notes and the ghostly presence of an unknown French woman, Naomi knows that things are about to be turned upside down once more. The next instalment from the acclaimed author of Maria's Papers and The Matthew Chance Legacy, The Emergence of Malaterre is a long-awaited return to the saga of Naomi Wilkes and her historical investigations. Engaging and intelligently-written, with multiple plots and nefarious schemes expertly interwoven, it is a thriller like no other that's guaranteed to keep you turning the page right up until the end.