Publisher's Synopsis
This story is set in the south of England two years after the close of the previous era and the Great Removal of the chosen ones from Planet Earth. Stonehenge, an ancient monument eight miles north of Salisbury in Wiltshire has quickly become a city in its own right, and from this new city, witchcraft and paganism have spread throughout the British Isles. The ancient stone circle of Stonehenge, believed to be a harbour of potent supernatural power, has been a draw to countless settlers who have built their homes as close as possible to the site. London has become a ghost city since the fragmentation of the British Government, and its close proximity to the North Sea which was polluted with a red chemical due to a huge meteor falling into it, killing all the fish. As a result, London City quickly deteriorated. A hundred and fifty miles from Stonehenge City lies an old mill on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor ('Goen Bren' in the Cornish language) in the County of Cornwall near the southwestern coast of England where the sea is still fresh. This old mill is home to eleven adults and four children. It is a bit overcrowded, but they have lived and worked well together ..... until now! This play is a 'whodunnit' and covers a period of one month. It includes characters from the novels 'As Time Approaches' and 'Time Will Tell'. The sections that contain scripts for role play are printed in italics. The residents of the old mill: Michelle and Tina Carter Michelle and her daughter Tina have no relatives around. Michelle's husband Chris was one of the chosen ones taken from the Earth at the end of the previous era. After this, Michelle went through bitter trauma as she tried to look after her daughter Tina, now three years old. Michelle and Tina eventually met the team at Stonehenge and followed them to Bodmin Moor to start a new life together. Michelle has become a natural leader for the team.Jenny Cartright Jenny's husband was the captain of a battleship in the war between the UK and Scandinavia in the previous era. He died in that war, while in the south of England, his wife Jenny was involved in a car accident which killed Michelle and Chris' first child Jasmine Carter. Michelle is aware of who she is and what she did, but has not revealed this to the rest of the group. Ben and Sheila Ben and Sheila have been friends for a long time, and are younger than Michelle Carter and Jenny Cartright. They were both well acquainted with Michelle and Tina before they met in Stonehenge, because Ben lived next door to the Carters in Winchester before the close of the previous era. At that time, Sheila's boyfriend Jamie was wrongly imprisoned for the murder of a policeman. Ben knows who the true murderer was, but has kept it a secret from Sheila all this time. Ben is in love with Sheila but she does not seem to reciprocate this.Pierre, Venessa and Suzy Pierre is a late middle aged Frenchman. He is also Venessa's boyfriend. Estranged from his two sons, he used to live in relative solitude near Paris. He has severe facial scars due to having been tortured by Cod-eye disease sufferers immediately after the close of the previous era. Later, he travelled to Norfolk in England where he met Venessa. They travelled to Suffolk to visit Venessa's old friend Tony and the child he looked after called Suzy. But this created a love triangle which ended by Pierre killing Tony and secretly disposing of his body. Venessa does not know what Pierre did. Together, Pierre and Venessa adopted Suzy as their own child. Suzy is now seven years old. While at the old mill, Venessa was stung by a scorpust and as a consequence, her left hand and arm became partially paralysed. In the previous era, Venessa had killed two psychopaths who kidnapped her just after she had survived a suicidal surfing experience. And much more follows................
