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The Diary of General William Goffe

On a cold windy morning in January 1649, Charles I, the King of England, was beheaded in front of the Royal Palace of Whitehall in London. It was the first time in English history that a King was killed by his subjects.

In 1982, in the small town of Hadley, Massachusetts, a diary is discovered by a young lawyer processing an estate. Jonathan Whiting finds the book that was written by one of the 59 jurors that tried, convicted and sentenced the King of England to death.

The worn pages of the old book take him back in time to the events surrounding the trial and execution. He learns of the plight of three of the jurors in the American colonies and how two hid in Hadley for years eluding assassins sent by the murdered king’s son, Charles II.

Jonathan and Cathy Anderson enter a world where natural and supernatural forces come together and continue a journey of discovery and suspense, two hundred years after the judges died.