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Britain has always kept its promises.

The Quiet Service is a contemporary British fantasy series about the civil servants, investigators and reluctant witnesses who keep the old agreements from coming due.

It simply hasn’t always remembered making them.

Knock Thrice

A mountain rescue in Scotland should have ended with a recovery. Instead former Army officer James Stuart falls into a forest that should not exist and is saved by a stranger with black-starlight eyes and three-fingered hands.

In Whitehall, Helen Ward finds files meant to stay buried. At Harker House, archaeologist Nell Harker uncovers family records pointing towards an older Crown, the Betwixt and a constitutional machinery nobody alive fully understands.

As something begins knocking at old thresholds, James is drawn into a service that exists because some problems cannot be acknowledged publicly, let alone solved conventionally.