TestamentPaperback, 1 May 2010

It is 1385 and master mason Simon of Kineton is building his magnum opusa great college to rival any in England. But the Bishop of Salter, hostile to free education, is determined to sabotage Simon's project. When rumors spread that the mason's son is cursed, the bishop sees an opportunity to undermine both Simon and the college. 600 years later, in the same city, Damia Millerhas beenemployed to promotepenniless Kineton and Dacre college. She soon realizes thata grotesquewall painting uncoveredduring renovations mayhold the key to the ancient college's survival.A startling feat of imaginative skill, this debutnovel is a heartbreaking reminder of what it is that makes us humanno matter what era we are born into."