King Arthur and the Secret of the Universe

When Tobias O’Neil, ancient weapons expert, visits the intriguing Coral Castle in Florida, USA, he is shown a Magnetic Generator and a secret by his guide, the mysterious ‘small person’, carved into an old wooden bedstead and which reads: ‘The Secret of the Universe is '7129 / 6105195’. This occurrence will come to play a more significant part in his life than he could possibly have imagined when he later travels to England to join an Archaeological project at Winchester Cathedral. “King Arthur and the Secret of the Universe” is a 160,000 word, fantasy novel, that uncovers previously undiscovered Mathematical secrets encoded into the Round Table of King Arthur and the characters of the ‘Arthurian Legends’ written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th century AD. At Winchester, Tobias meets the beautiful but enigmatic Alice Moncrief who is doing restoration work on King Arthur’s Round Table and together they find an ancient sword, wrapped in a vellum scroll, hidden inside the Round Table. With the help of Alice’s family, particularly her mystical mother Graine, her Maths wizard brother Tom and her strange and remote father Alistair they gradually unravel the mysteries of the many glyphs and the Latin Text inked onto the vellum scroll. As they unravel the secrets of each character in the ‘Arthurian Legends’ from… ‘King Mark’ to ‘The Sword in the Stone’… they begin to realise that they themselves are the modern day versions of the ancient characters and that they have all been brought to Winchester by some unexplained mysterious force manifested by a series of ephemeral beings that each of them has met at an earlier time. Joining forces with Agnes, a bluff no-nonsense Project Manager; Nieme… her hard drinking Irish sidekick from the Archaeological dig and Stella, the sexy and captivating barmaid at the Kingfisher Inn, they begin to realise that it is Graine… the reincarnation of ‘The Lady of the Lake’… who imprisoned Merlin in the Rocks thousands of years ago…who is the centre and cause of their strange happenings. Merlin is back with a vengeance… controlling and manipulating them to solve the riddles of the vellum scroll glyphs and the secret location of his thousand years of imprisonment hidden in the Latin Text… urging them to release him from his long years of waiting so he can return home to Avalon. As Tobias and Alice begin to fall in love they realise that dark forces have also arrived in Winchester, come to reclaim their ancient source of power… and a little killing is in the air. Will Merlin protect them… will they reach and free him in time… will these ‘Arthurian Legends’ end with the same awful outcome as before, Arthur’s death?