The Monkshead Conspiracy

In 1864 a band of monks from an obscure religious branch move into Chadkirk near Manchester England and within weeks children start to go missing.In 2009 a minor earthquake near Manchester exposes a huge wooden beam with a sinister and intriguing inscription on it and at the same time a series of unusual and unsettling incidents begin to occur in a wood nearby.Historic researcher Naomi Wilkes is called in to investigate and she has no idea of the horror she will uncover.