Knock Thrice
The Quiet Service | Book 1
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.