A Touchstone Origins story

Taking up her new job at Birmingham Central Library, Kath Bright is haunted by sinister occurrences in the modernist concrete complex.

It's 2008 and Kath is recovering from a failed relationship while Britain slides into its first credit crunch Christmas. But money and love troubles are not Kath's only concern as she uncovers a chilling tale of witch hunts and a Victorian murder mystery from the archives.

This past becomes very real when those archives reveal a door to the building that was there 100 years ago.

And a killer who is waiting for her.

The dark anti-heroine of the bestselling time travel saga gets her own personal origin story in this 130-page novella that reveals how she first found her touchstone.

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