Stones of Wrath

A royal tapestry, a kidnapped child, a 3000-year-old Biblical relic.

These were not what archaeology professor Mikkel Jacobsen was expecting when he surveyed the ruins of Sheffield Manor, in the spring of 1916. As head of the new humanities faculty at the university, he has been called on to verify an exciting find—a tapestry, rumoured to have belonged to the imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots. Woven into the stitching is a coded message, sent from her grandmother, Antoinette de Bourbon. It hints at the whereabouts of a Biblical relic that should have changed the course of Mary’s history. The relic has an appointment with the future, and in the wrong hands will bring death and destruction. Follow the professor and his friends as they join in a dangerous race to find and protect the relic from malevolent forces.
‘Stones of Wrath—The Tapestry’ is a novel filled with suspense, mystery, romance, and history. The international historical adventure is the first in this breakthrough series by author SJ Ratcliffe.
SJ Ratcliffe is the winner of a 5-Star ‘Highly Recommended’ Award of excellence from The Historical Fiction Company, USA and the 2025 Winter Pencraft Award for Christian Fiction. Her work has been recognised in the NSW Parliament, 2024.
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“I was impressed by the authors ability to create vivid sense of place by referencing dolmens which are explicitly mentioned in the scriptures. I appreciated the complexity of the historical threads in the novel format, where the different elements come neatly together. The book would appeal not only to the adventurous, historical mystery seeker and romantic, but also to the reader who seeks to bring an obscure piece of history to life.”
Prof (Dr) WA Liebenberg