After years of hard work, Matthew and Alex Graham have created a thriving home in the Colony of Maryland. About time, in Alexβs opinion, after far too many adventures she is really looking forward to some well-deserved peace and quiet.
A futile hope, as it turns out. Things start to heat up when Jacob, the third Graham son, absconds from his apprenticeship to see the worldβespecially as Jacob leaves behind a girl whom he has wed in a most irregular fashion.
Then thereβs the infected matter of the fellow time traveler Alex feels obliged to helpβno matter the risk. Worst of all, one day Philip Burley and his brothers resurface after years of absence. As determined as ever to make Matthew pay for every perceived wrongβstarting with the death of their youngest brotherβthe Burleys play out a complicated cat and mouse game, and Alex is thrown back into an existence where her heart is constantly in her mouth, convinced as she is that one day the Burleys will achieve their purpose.
Will the Burleys succeed? And if they do, will the Graham family survive the exacted price?
Serpents in the Garden is the fifth book in Anna Belfrageβs time slip series featuring time traveler Alexandra Lind and her seventeenth-century husband, Matthew Graham.
Had Anna Belfrage been allowed to choose, sheβd have become a professional time traveler. As this was impossible, she instead authored the acclaimed Graham Saga, a time-traveling series set in the seventeenth century. Her latest series is set in the 1320s and features Adam de Guirande, his wife Kit, and their adventures during Roger Mortimerβs rise to power.
Greg Patmore, Audie Award winner, became an actor in his midforties, fulfilling a lifelong ambition, when he trained at Arts Educational Schools, and has enjoyed a varied career on stage, screen, and in the voice-over studio ever since.