A small child is found on an inner-city Brisbane street in the early hours of a cold late autumn morning at the scene of a bloody shootout between criminals. Not a word spoken, not a reason for being there. And not long after, gone from the police station as though just a figment of Detective Lisa Carlton's imagination.

 

At the same time as the girl first appears on the street in front of Detective Carlton, private detective Jason Conti has a vision of her that lingers long after he wakes. He senses she is no ordinary child: a millennium of lives hidden inside one so young. And before the day is over, discovers that she is part of something that has existed since the fall of the Roman Empire.

 

The Ælmiht Society, a secret organisation with power and reach in just about every corner of the world, will stop at nothing to bring about the new age of man; an age when their society and its enigmatic leader will rule over everyone. Galan, the society's best assassin, arrives in Brisbane to oversee the retrieval of an ancient emerald, first taken from the society by an Anglo-Saxon King during the 5th century when the society was judged to be the work of the devil and forced to exists inside the shadows of the Dark Ages. The gem is the centre piece of an upcoming exhibition at the Queensland Museum but just a small part of a greater ancient artifact. One that is written to hold the power of second sight. A power that can change the course of history.

 

However, Ealdor, the current High Priest of the Ælmiht Society, has a secret of his own. One that has been passed down from High Priest to High Priest since their very beginnings. And one that could destroy the very foundations that the society has been built upon. A secret he will kill to keep.

 

Born from an ancient bloodline, Madeline Louissaint is just a child but carries written and yet-to-be written history in her veins. A power so great that Ealdor will stop at nothing to obtain. Whoever sees the future can shape the world in their own image. However, there is so much more to the child then anyone can imagine — anyone except for the man of two world, that is. Jason Conti is no ordinary private detective: from the age of eleven, he has existed in both the physical and non-physical plains. A so-called gift that is more a curse than a blessing, but a power he must wield sparingly or attract those pernicious spirits and their human puppets to his door.

 

Madeline has been waiting for Jason Conti since she could first form a thought. A man lingering just out of sight, like a lighthouse in the distance. And the only man that doesn't seem to have a future — at least, not one that she can see. But what she does know: if she, and the rest of the world, is to remain free, this man of two world, the bringer of light, must come to her door.

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