The Portal
Published on 28. February 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
388 pages
979-8-230-16157-8 (ISBN)
Description
449 years separate them. Intrinsically entwined. Both on a quest to save God:
2028: DI Westmoor of Colsden, Bletchley CID, must solve the murder of an eminent Cambridge professor in ancient civilisations or see an abrupt end to his career - the killer? A professional assassin. Except, before Westmoor can get to grips with the case, a second case falls upon him - the mass slaughter of Colsdens' finest teenagers; in a scout hut; apparently in the middle of conducting a Satanic ritual.
1579: 15yo Elias the Scribe, an orphan, is thrown into a world of secret orders and clandestine societies vying for control - not of kingdoms, but of God himself. His mentor and saviour, Lord Montague Ashcombe is struck down by the hand of God as he conducts an ancient mystical ritual. Now Elias has only one place he can turn for succour. To the eerie grey priory in Stigolford, on the windswept Somerset coast, home of the Order of the Black Monks. For they had warned him of the impending catastrophe.
Warned him, as Inquisitors to Queen Elizabeth, that Lord Ashcombe was meddling with powers he could not comprehend.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
546 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-230-16157-8 (9798230161578)
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Jack T Canis lives in South Wales, UK with his wife and three neurodivergent children. He started his professional career as an archaeologist, but through the years has also been a self-employed armourer; an administrator for the NHS and in recent years a qualified person-centred counsellor specialising in bereavement and loss, now retired. Currently he is a full-time carer for his youngest child who has Sotos syndrome and carer for his eldest child who is autistic. He is a part time writer. He is published in a number of publications including: Purple Wall magazine (honourable mention & co-champion), Datura & Sledgehammer Literary magazine. He is in four anthologies and has been longlisted in the Cranked Anvil monthly competition (2021) & Bridport Flash Fiction Competition (2021). The collection of dark short stories, 'Horrific Tales for a Horrific Year' published by Abergavenny Small Press (ASP) is available from
https://www.asppublishing.co.uk/ or
https://books2read.com/horrifictales2020
Along with several other publications via books2read.
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