Synopsis "The Price of Knowledge (The Keepers' Legacy)"
Knowledge was divided for a reason. Elias Copeland intends to discover why. England, 1533. At twenty years old, Elias Copeland inherits a legacy of fragmented writings, symbols and traditions passed down through generations of Keepers. Where others accept the gaps in their knowledge, Elias sees a mystery waiting to be solved. He begins to search. What starts as curiosity becomes a lifetime's work. Travelling, collecting forgotten records and comparing fragments scattered across generations, Elias becomes convinced that the Keepers once possessed knowledge far greater than anything surviving in his own time. Each discovery strengthens his belief that he can reconstruct what has been lost. Morwen does not share his certainty. She recognises something Elias refuses to consider: perhaps the knowledge was never lost at all. Perhaps it was deliberately separated. As years become decades, Elias's determination draws him away from his family and deeper into a pursuit he can no longer abandon. Fifteen years after his search began, the scattered pieces finally seem complete. With a small vessel fashioned from yew and a ritual reconstructed from incomplete records, Elias prepares to prove that generations of Keepers were wrong to fear what they no longer understood. Morwen knows she must stop him. Neither understands what will happen when two opposing forms of ancient knowledge collide. And neither knows the true price of putting back together something their ancestors went to extraordinary lengths to tear apart. Some knowledge is forgotten. Some is hidden. And some is divided so that no one can ever use it again. The Price of Knowledge is a dark historical supernatural novel of obsession, family, forbidden knowledge and the consequences of believing that understanding something gives us the right to use it. A standalone story within The Keepers' Legacy, it reveals the origin of an object whose consequences will survive Elias Copeland—and pass through his family for generations.
