The year is AD525, and Merlin, wizard extraordinaire, brought up equal shares druid and Christian, is being sent to Rome to study for the Priesthood with The Professionals. Of course, Merlin has other ideas, and when he meets an Essene traveller called Frances on a road in Italy, who gives him a staff with two entwined snakes carved around it, he glibly flips himself back in time to where The Greatest Story Ever Sold began. From here, he begins to build himself a power nexus in the 21st century, in Glastonbury, from where he will not only rewrite the story but will foment the New Dawn of Civilisation, using only a brilliant and beautiful young archaeologist and the blueprint of a 9th-century Carolingian monastery that has never been built.The year is 2018, and Vanda, a bright young archaeologist, is just completing the excavation in Glastonbury of a 6th-century Carolingian monastery that has never been built. But stranger things than this are beginning to happen with exponential rapidity, and Vanda is forced to give up all thought of control in a life that is spiralling so out of control that it no longer seems to be her own.And then there's Brian and the Mysterious Moneymen...Join them for a roller-coaster ride through history, the discovery of some of Time's Most Precious Hidden Secrets and a lot of beautiful scenery.