Lazar

This is the tale of the ghost in the machine. The ghost is the troubled spirit of Margaret that has haunted the drowned city of Wickwich for over 700 years; the machine is a computer. The ghost becomes attached to Jan when she discovers Margaret's ring. The computer belongs to Hal, Jan's cousin.

According to ancient legend the drowned city rises up from beneath the waves in spectral form on the anniversary of its being washed away by a violent storm in 1286. When Jan and Hal embark upon realising this legend in the virtual world of computers they unwittingly trigger a chain of supernatural twists and turns that lead inexorably to the culmination of a 700-year-old curse – with fearful consequences.