The Face in the Fresco

When Daya Vernon is seconded as a consultant to the National Museum in Kabul the last thing she expects is for Will Devine to walk back into her life. He is seeking advice about a Roman fresco he’s inherited. Daya last saw Will when she was twelve, twenty years earlier, when they were briefly abducted in mysterious circumstances. Soon she learns that their families are embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy, and that their past is being re-enacted, but in a far deadlier form than when they were children. They now realize that the rapport, which they have had since childhood, is a strange paranormal ability that allows them to know what the other is feeling. Before Daya can discover what Will and she might become to one another she has to deal with events that fall like shadows across their lives. As Daya and Will try to unravel what lies behind these events, their lives are overshadowed by powers that will do anything to stop them. Daya’s life plunges into a terrifying struggle to survive as she’s pursued by ruthless professional killers, one whose obsession with her began when she was still a child.Daya’s illustrious origins, her innocence, and her role in a conflict of a magnitude far greater than anything she could possibly imagine, make her the target of great forces and the possessor of a compelling potential. It was inevitable, Will later realised, that she would be taken under in the way she was, innocently picking flowers at the brink of a cataclysm, with no notion of the proximity of the obsession and desire that threaten her. Daya’s mother promises to tell him the identity of the face in the fresco – a secret that suggests where Daya can be found. It’s then that the real mysteries begin.