Jenny had travelled through time before. They physical stress of
the transformation had been bad enough but life as she had found it
in the year 1347 had been horrendous. She abhorred the filth,
poverty and deprivation which was the daily fate of the peasants
and the unsanitary conditions even in the castles and manors of the
upper class. So why is she hiding among the ancient columns of
Stonehenge, waiting for Gwenelda, the Gatekeeper who once rescued
her from the past and the only one who can return her there?
The reason is simple. Jenny has found out that, a year after she
left the Middle Ages, the Black Death would devastate England. A
third of the population would perish. Jenny can't let any of her
friends die so horribly. She has to return even if that means
becoming a Gatekeeper and accepting the vast responsibility of that
order … and it's dangers.
Can Jenny accomplish her daring plan and get out again without
running into trouble? Will she be able to avoid Rudigor, the
malignant wizard who tried to kill her last time she was there?
These questions are certainly uppermost in her mind but she can't
get near to imagining the dangers which will face her if she does
return to the past.