Days Without Number

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Nick Paleologus is summoned to the unyielding bosom of his family to
help resolve a dispute which threatens to set his brothers and sisters
against their aged and irascible father. Michael Paleologus, retired
archaeologist and supposed descendant of the last Emperors of Byzantium,
lives alone at Trennor, a remote and rambling house on the Cornish bank
of the Tamar. A ridiculously generous offer has been made for the
house, but he refuses to sell despite the urgings of his children, for
whom the proceeds would solve a variety of problems. Nick
accomplishes little in the role of mediator, but the stalemate is soon
tragically broken. Only then do Nick and his siblings discover why their
father was bound at all costs to reject the offer and what may really
be the motives of the prospective buyer. Their increasingly
desperate efforts to conceal the truth drag them into a deadly conflict
with an unseen and unknown enemy, who seems as determined to force them
into a confrontation with their family's past as he is to conceal his
own identity. Late in the day, perhaps too late, Nick realizes
that the only way to escape from the trap their persecutor has set for
them is to hunt him down, wherever - and whoever - he may be. But the
hunt involves excavating a terrible secret from their father's
archaeological career. And once that secret is known, nothing will ever
be the same again.