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History, mystery, contemporary romance and magic…

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A whimsical tale about money and its unknown otherworldly origins.

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‘Sophisticated and thought-provoking
... an urban fairy tale for grown-ups.’
– Avid Ashley

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‘A fantastical, highly addictive first novel.’
-The Wishing Shelf Awards

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GOLD MEDAL Winner
Global Ebook Awards USA

SILVER MEDAL Winner
Readers’ Favorite Awards Contest USA

GOLD AWARD Winner
Literary Titan Book Awards UK
(The complete Epiphany series compilation)

BRONZE MEDAL Winner
The Coffee Pot Club Book of the Year Awards UK

MEDALLION Honoree
Book Readers’ Appreciation Group USA
(The complete Epiphany series compilation)

RED RIBBON Winner
The Wishing Shelf Awards UK

BEST BOOK WE’VE READ ALL YEAR Finalist
Read Freely UK

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"It is midnight, and you are sleeping.
I am here at the table with a candle at my elbow, penning the most difficult letter I have ever had to write.
They are coming for me. Samuel Withers saw them in the village…"

ENGLAND, 1767
Edward Lillibridge is writing a farewell letter to his son. The controversial author faces trial for heresy after revealing, in a book, the true beginnings of money.

FAST-FORWARD TO THE MILLENNIUM
…six months before the Global Financial Crisis rocks the economy. Lillibridge's Our True Ancient History, published under the guise of fiction, is out-of print, available only at antiquarian bookshops and largely overlooked. Until now.

Rosetta Melki, an idealist whose dream of starting a worldwide charity has been all but crushed by her solo-parent struggles, is enchanted by Our True Ancient History. Lillibridge's tale about a gold-obsessed kingdom (and the sprites they enslave: elfin clan dwellers whose currency of choice is kindness) has ignited a memory Rosetta cannot explain.

Rosetta's website surrounding the reading group she's begun with friends has inspired the emergence of other Lillibridge book clubs. Her own Sydney group meets fortnightly at a cosy lamplit cottage, the rental home she secured to escape a gruesome intruder.

In a more affluent part of Sydney, finance executive Matthew Weissler (polished, successful, admired) has been questioning his slave-to-the-dollar existence and his marriage to a tantrum-throwing shopaholic. And now he's questioning his sanity after finding he's been followed by an elf.

Rosetta’s pursuer still lurks in the shadows, but what is the stranger’s game? Prowler from the suburb she fled with her daughter...or traveller from the past, sent to suppress an ancient memory?