What begins as a family trip to Tuscany turns unsettling when Ben and Rachel Linden and their children, Clara and Milo, begin to suspect that the weathered villa they have rented is hiding more than age and silence.
A strange clue beneath the property draws them into a trail of forgotten notes, sealed spaces, old roads, and family secrets woven deep into the hills. But with every answer comes greater risk, and what begins as curiosity soon becomes a search that may alter far more than their holiday.
Atmospheric, intelligent, and steeped in history, The False Eagle is a literary mystery of family, inheritance, and the cost of uncovering what was meant to remain hidden.
“Two thousand years, and it was still waiting for the right hand to come back for it.”
— The False Eagle
Book One of The Linden Inheritance
Hear the Opening
Autumn, 1965
“The shovel hit wood.”
Prologue · Excerpt
The first three minutes, from the audiobook edition.
Read it before it is published
The False Eagle is finished and not published. Before it goes any further I send it to a small number of readers who will tell me the truth about it. Ask below — or just leave an address and I will write when there is news.
Somewhere south of Florence, a road remembers where it used to go — and someone always seems to be watching who takes it.
The Linden Inheritance
Five Books, Five Roads
One is bound and on the shelf. The other four are still wrapped — turn a tag to see how far along each road has come.
Book One of The Linden Inheritance · five books, five roads
The Visitors' Book
Leave Your Name
Dispatches when the door opens: publication news, new plates for the atlas, and the road to Book Two. No noise — a letter now and then, the way Enzo would have wanted it.
The Author