Cirrus@Austlit

'Watching the sun rise on the midsummer solstice at Stonehenge, Jenny's holiday takes a terrifying turn when a chance combination of time, location and ancient Druid magic sweeps her back to the year 1347. Jenny finds she has to live in the squalid conditions of a peasant village but is soon on the run after exposing a fraudulent tax collector. Hiding in the forest she saves a Lady from thieves and is taken to live in her castle.

'But she is not much better off there after she uncovers the younger son's murderous plot to depose the old Lord, his father. Matters are made worse by the greed of a powerful neighbour and the evil magician that controls him. After many terrifying encounters everything depends upon the final battle between the vast army of the Dark Lord of Blackraven Moor and the small force from Glenhaven castle. Can Jenny's ingenuity save the day? And more importantly - can it get her back to her own century?' (Publisher's blurb)

'Jenny had travelled through time before. The physical stress of the transformation had been bad enough but life as she found it in the year 1347 had been horrendous. She abhorred the filth, poverty and deprivation which was the daily fate of the peasants and the unsanitary conditions even in the castles and manors of the upper class. So why is she hiding among the ancient columns of Stonehenge, waiting for Gwenelda, the Gatekeeper who once rescued her from the past and the only one who can return her there?

'The reason is simple. Jenny has found out that, a year after she left the middle ages, the Black Death would devastate England. A third of the population would perish. Jenny can't let any of her friends die so horribly. She has to return even if that means becoming a Gatekeeper and accepting the vast responsibilities of that Order...and the dangers.

'Can Jenny accomplish her daring plan and get out again without running into trouble? Will she be able to avoid Rudigor, the malignant wizard who tried to kill her last time she was there? These questions are certainly uppermost in her mind but she can't get near to imagining the dangers which will face her if she does return to the past.' (Publisher's blurb)