The Lost Queen by Frewin Jones

Author:Frewin Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins

They were seated at a window table in the internet café. Edric had logged on and was busy tapping at the keyboard. Tania sat perched on the high stool, her elbows on the table and a frothing mug of cappuccino warming her cold hands.

“Lilith Mariner is Titania,” she said. “She has to be.”

“Yes, I think so,” Edric agreed, looking intently at the computer screen. “The name would make sense. Oberon is known as the Sun King and Titania was the Moon Queen, and Lilith is a name that is often given to the moon. There’s a children’s rhyme: ‘By Lilith’s sombre light, I wandered through the night, till came the blessed sun, another day begun.’ I don’t remember the rest of it, but the point is that Lilith was the moon.”

“And Mariner?”

“The Queen always loved the sea,” Edric said. “Sailor—seafarer—mariner. I can see why she might choose a name like that.” He tapped the keyboard. “Aha!”

“What?”

“Take a look at this. I’ve found the Pleiades Legal Group’s website.”

Tania leaned close. The home page was dark blue with seven white stars. As Edric ran the cursor over the stars, words came and went.

ABOUT US. SITE MAP. FAQS. NEWS. LEGAL DIVISIONS. MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE. POLICY AND SUPPORT.

Edric clicked on MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE.

A new page came up.

“Oh…my…lord…” Tania whispered.

The page showed photo portraits of four people. A large one at the top of the page, and three smaller pictures beneath, one of which was of George Mervyn.

But it was the top picture that held Tania’s breathless attention.

The heart-shaped face that looked out at her was of a woman who could have been in her midthirties, a beautiful woman with no lines or wrinkles or other signs of aging on her flawless white skin, and no hint of gray in the flaming red curls that tumbled onto the shoulders of her dark green jacket. Tania saw the familiar high, slanted cheekbones and the full-lipped mouth. And there, gazing serenely out at her, were those smoky green, gold-flecked eyes—the same eyes that Tania saw every day when she looked into the mirror.

Her eyes slid to a block of writing underneath the picture.

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