The Buried Circle

The Buried Circle
Jenni Mills

An intriguing literary thriller, ‘The Buried Circle' is a gripping blend of fact and fiction that is impossible to put down.The village of Avebury is one of the most mysterious places in the English countryside. Surrounded by ancient standing stones, crop circles and burial mounds, this is a place where all is not as it seems.Weaving fact with fiction, Jenni Mills's second novel is set in a haunted landscape where the past breaks through into the present. In 1938, the archaeologist Alexander Keiller – a millionaire playboy with a passion for witchcraft and ritual magic – plans to reconstruct Avebury's five-thousand-year-old stone circle. Frannie Robinson and her boyfriend Davey are among those who fall under his dangerous spell, and are nearly destroyed. Seventy years later, Frannie's granddaughter India sets out on her own quest to discover the truth. But digging up the past unearths the unexpected, and may prove lethal…

THE

BURIED

CIRCLE

Jenni Mills

In memory of my father, Robert Mills, who flew

1916-78

and my mother, Sheila Mills, who danced

1921-2007

I sought for ghosts and sped

Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,

And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing

Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.

Percy Bysshe Shelley,

Hymn To Intellectual Beauty

Time wounds all heels.

Groucho Marx, John Lennon,

and others, including Margaret Robinson

Table of Contents

Part One-Memory Crystals (#u0ef5aa54-cf65-5b8c-80fa-811f6b2ec68b)

Chapter 1 - Lammas, 2005 (#u5b19be62-95c3-5815-84a6-54cf4c1d93c1)

Chapter 2 - Autumn Equinox (#u8c24a47f-aacb-5c3c-9a95-b5653e5f650a)

Chapter 3 (#u445d5f46-1253-5c8b-907b-2119c9862abf)

Chapter 4 (#u8bfe7158-d97b-55ac-b2e5-a40699184fe5)

Part Two - Imbolc (#u05371720-3ed9-5715-9053-91fc48f4f599)

Chapter 5 - Candlemas (#u6eb32764-609c-5cae-9fae-73c771577498)

Chapter 6 - 1938 (#u6008daf2-99ae-50bf-a753-ed1ab93b54b4)

Chapter 7 (#u1b7e2f5f-2e96-5e68-ab32-ea2bc57e44ff)

Chapter 8 - 1938 (#uf702a80b-51da-5554-8c47-286781abbacb)

Chapter 9 (#u5b0bc67b-977e-50a5-87eb-96a6e17e0de9)

Chapter 10 - 1938 (#u3ab8e6f2-d9ba-559d-9930-e3a9a4038cf4)

Chapter 11 (#ua3c82277-e4d9-56c7-b09e-aa2cd54fcf8a)

Part Three - Equal Night (#u41545c50-fcf7-59ef-ba4e-bdd2c0c3a018)

Chapter 12 - 1938 (#u7a5a555c-0596-5c8b-a985-fb5b4442aa02)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 - 1938 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 - 1938 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 - 1938 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 20 - 1938 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22 - 1938 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 24 - September 1938 (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Four - Fire Festival (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 25 - 1939 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)