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1864: What if you stumbled across a secret lost for centuries?
The Case of the Beth-el Stone
What you need to know before your trail
From the bustling gold rush and the streets of Melbourne in 1864 to the ancient city of Edinburgh in Scotland, three friends flee from a secret society out for revenge, only to find themselves at the centre of a centuries-old plot and a ‘stop at nothing’ foe.
Erroll Rait, Major Gask and Mary Mitchell find themselves pitted against the full might of the British Empire’s secret services and a centuries-old Knights Templar Lodge of the Freemasons with a secret to guard and an explosive plan that could change history. Murder, kidnap, torture, death stalk their trail. Gask and Rait alone have the key to avert a constitutional crisis and the violent conflict that would follow. But can they survive to unlock the puzzle?
Immerse yourself in the 1860s with deeply researched real background events and an intermingling with real characters of the day.
Travel Guide
Scotland
The place most will associate with the Templars is Rosslyn Chapel, not far from Edinburgh, thanks to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code. This enigmatic place is, indeed, well worth a visit.
However, there is a Templar site – some 5 miles distant – that deserves to be better known. This is a now ruined church in a small village by the name of Temple, originally called Ballantrodoch.
There has been much debate about the role that the Knights may have played in the momentous Battle of Bannockburn near Stirling 7 years later when Edward II’s army was routed by Bruce’s outnumbered army (a story retold at the Bannockburn visitor centre).
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Case of the Beth-el Stone
Destination/Location: Scotland Author: David Cairns of Finavon Departure: 1864
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