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The Order
The Oldest Order
The alchemical stone lay hidden for centuries. Even its purpose had been forgotten. The blood surrounding its discover almost a millennium earlier had long since grown black and hardened about it.
Fleeing an arranged marriage, Mairéad Christabel Donaghmore finds refuge in a brooding, ancient castle in the Scottish highlands. Once a perceptory of l'Ordre d'Fe, now a retreat for the well-heeled and powerful of London, it whispers of old money and older gods. In the days after her arrival, it comes to shriek of death. One by one, each of its inhabitants is found bizarrely murdered.
In the hidden world of a Victorian secret society, Mairéad learns of a mystery older than the castle itself, and of a conspiracy tangled byond her imagination. Suddenly imprisoned in a world unchanged since the middle ages, she struggles to unravel the final deadly secret of The Order.
The alchemical stone lay hidden for centuries. Even its purpose had been forgotten. The blood surrounding its discover almost a millennium earlier had long since grown black and hardened about it.
Fleeing an arranged marriage, Mairéad Christabel Donaghmore finds refuge in a brooding, ancient castle in the Scottish highlands. Once a perceptory of l'Ordre d'Fe, now a retreat for the well-heeled and powerful of London, it whispers of old money and older gods. In the days after her arrival, it comes to shriek of death. One by one, each of its inhabitants is found bizarrely murdered.
In the hidden world of a Victorian secret society, Mairéad learns of a mystery older than the castle itself, and of a conspiracy tangled byond her imagination. Suddenly imprisoned in a world unchanged since the middle ages, she struggles to unravel the final deadly secret of The Order.
478 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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May 23, 2015
Fun read from a new author. S. W. Rimmer is far from the mainstream of authors writing about hidden societies. More plausible than Brown, more readable than Ecco, and not as 'tongue in cheek' as Shea/Wilson
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