The Mystery of the Third Seal

By Margaret Pearce

James Tadworthy lives in a post-holocaust society in which there are no wars, no crime no pollution, no disease and no work. Everyone lives in perfect harmony with their tamed environment and all knowledge is controlled by the Shepherds, a group who selflessly dedicate their lives to humanity's welfare and best interests.

But when Tadworthy finds out the Shepherds' shocking and closely-guarded secret, he discovers that beneath the surface of his peaceful community is a world of violence and intrigue. He is launched on a dangerous quest through a labyrinth of underground passages to discover that the mysterious Third Seal is an airlock to the closely guarded secret of the hidden learning of the past.

And his ideal society will never be the same again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Writers Exchange E-Publishing
• Release date: Mar 29, 2011
• ISBN: 9781920972493

Margaret Pearce

Margaret Pearce was born when the population of Australia was seven million – now it is some twenty-two million. Like many Australians, her forebears immigrated in the 1850's to find a better life for their children, part of the largest diaspora of the times.At seven when she found a lurid science fiction magazine, her unsupervised reading started. The cover had an almost naked female in a large wine glass and an interesting alien drinking her blood from a tap below. She has since been hooked on science fiction and fantasy. She completed a commercial course before being launched on an unsuspecting business world as a typist, stenographer and secretary before falling into copywriting. When she married, she commenced writing and even while raising children, found time to publish. When children grew, she decided to study for a arts degree as a mature age student and become a teacher, but writing continued to dominate her life.The Author lives in an underground house in the Australian bush, where she maintains her love of writing.