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The figure of the Red Horse had stood on the Warwickshire hillside for as long as anyone could remember but it masked a sinister power which linked it to violent death and human sacrifice: from the earliest times, when an ancient tribe dwelt at the foot of the escarpment known as Tiw’s Ho and sought the help of a one-handed priest to rid them of a terrible pestilence; to an attempt in the Middle Ages by a Doctor Caius to harness the power for his own benefit and rid the community of an evil serpent against the wishes of the Church; and leading seven hundred years later to the execution of Bustin The Incendiary at Warwick Prison in 1834.In the 1980s, Kim, Jeremy and Matthew follow up work on a school project on the Red Horse and discover the real figures beneath. They also find a curious metallic artefact on the hillside that holds the key to the terrible happenings in the past. They decide to keep their discovery secret, with frightening consequences.

The Inn had changed its name in the course of its history: time had hidden its origins which lay before the Civil War; the Civil War when the heartland of England became the battleground of Cavaliers and Roundheads. One of the most famous of the early battles was fought in 1642 at Edge Hill in the county of Warwickshire, not far from where the Inn stood. The publican’s son, Tom, finds while exploring the countryside near the site of the battle, an old pistol. This is the key that opens the door separating time past from time present. Because of it Tom and his sister Julianne become involved in an adventure which began with the death of one man on an October day in 1642 and ends more than three centuries later when the ghosts are laid and the mystery solved.