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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)
Chapter 27 - 1940–1941 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Five - Earth Magic (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 29 - 1941 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 30 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 32 - 1941 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 33 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 34 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 35 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 36 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 37 - 1941 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 38 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 39 - 1941–2 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Six - The Sun Stands Still (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 40 - 1942 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 41 - Solstice (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 42 - 1942 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 43 - 1942 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 44 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 45 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 46 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Seven - Killing Moon (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 47 - 29 August 1942 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 48 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 49 - 29 August 1942 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 50 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 51 - 29 August 1942 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 52 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 53 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 54 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 55 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 56 - 29 August 1942 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 57 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Eight - Sunwise (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 58 - Lammas, 2006 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 59 - January 1945 (#litres_trial_promo)
Author’s Note (#litres_trial_promo)
Also by Jenni Mills (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
PART ONE Memory Crystals (#uf18fbc97-e764-564b-93d6-6ca1d1406389)
‘History, archaeology, it’s all moonshine, really. We’re only guessing.’
Dr Martin Ekwall,
interviewed on BBC Wiltshire Sound
1942
‘Don’t be afraid,’ he says. The Insect King. ‘It’s only a mask.’
Eyes like a fly, elephant’s trunk that’s long, rubbery…
‘It’s only a mask,’ he says again.
‘I know it’s a mask,’ I says, braver than I feel. But there’s masks and masks. I’ve seen masks. I’ve seen what happens in the moonlight in the Manor gardens.
