Ten-year-old Rileyjoe Biddle (RJ) is a typical school boy that loves computer games. It is the start of the school holidays and RJ's parents are despairing at the amount of time he spends playing on his iPad. His father (Cornelius) is a history professor and each year he spends the summer break teaching in a Californian summer school.The day his father is due to fly out to the States, RJ stumbles across something unusual in the base of the old stone wall at the end of his garden. From the moment of his discovery, RJ's world changes forever. With the aid of his mother, Harriet, and his great-uncle, Wallace Melrose, RJ is challenged to prevent a tragedy that is set to take place in order to save an extraordinary community from destruction.Set in rural England, this story follows the journey of a twenty-first-century boy caught up in a world from the past. Secrecy is vital for survival so can RJ rescue his new friends from an unknown enemy but keep their identity concealed?
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