Charlotte Pollard’s adventures are over. She escaped death aboard the R101 and travelled in time and space - but now in the service of the monolithic, unknowable Viyrans, their unending mission is stifling her. An encounter with would-be adventurer Robert Buchan, near the mysterious Ever-and-Ever-Prolixity, provides the opportunity Charley needs for escape… So, the adventuress is abroad once more: meeting a lost expedition in uncharted forests, solving enigmas, and hoping beyond hope to see the people she misses most: her family. But Charley cannot run forever. The Viyrans know the power of the ‘Lamentation Cipher’ and they have a solution… for everything. Part One: The Lamentation Cypher Part Two: The Shadow at the Edge of the World Part Three: The Fall of the House of Pollard Part Four: The Viyran Solution

Charlotte Pollard... Space-time traveller. Former emissary of the mysterious and terrifying Viyrans... Now’s she’s cast adrift and finds herself brought right down to Earth, but an Earth which is changing rapidly. Why and how have they crash-landed in the London Underground? Who are the Identical Men? And why is human behaviour starting to change in startling and unexpected ways? Charley, Robert and their Rogue Viyran friend must find out if they are the solution or the cause. Deep beneath the Earth, something is stirring. Fragments of an alien design are coalescing...