The Traitor Within: A Real-world Fantasy Family Saga of Time-travel and Faerie

Two girls are missing, given up for dead. A year later, one returns with a story no-one will believe.

Peggy Lightborne has travelled through time and everyone thinks she's lost her mind. The world found a way to manage without her. It's her return that's raising inconvenient questions.

Rose would understand, but Rose is lost in history, with no idea how to get home and no-one to rely on but herself. Time-travel is proving to be more challenging than she thought, but there must be a reason for it.

A low fantasy family saga. Sequel and prequel to the best-selling The Changeling Tree and The Time Before.

Readers on The Changeling Tree series

"The author's skill is sublime ... high fantasy meeting Jane Austen."

"An escape from reality with a resonance of things lost. Beautifully written, characters finely drawn. Wonderful."

"Ordinarily, I'd have run a mile before reading this book. LeGuin, Shambleu, Tolkien, even Rowling ...you show me a magic world of faeries and suchlike, and I leave town. Quickly.

HOWEVER...

I read The Time Before from cover for cover, and loved it.

No spoilers, but Frances's even, calm, lucid prose gives you a magic world which appears perfectly normal, populated with characters who you understand, who you can believe in, and who you root for.

This is a great read, beautifully written. No hesitation in giving it 5 stars.

READ IT."

Another Winner

"I am surprised that a book in a genre that I don't normally read can keep me so engrossed I find it difficult to put it down and are just as anxious to get to book 3 in the series I love the how the queen screws up every quote she throws about like 'the kettle calling the kitten black', or 'let's call it today'. It's quite funny There is a serious side to the book as well and you will find yourself running through a gamut of emotions. Loved it On to the next "