Wendy Reakes

The Song of the Underground: a Secret City Beneath London, Undisturbed for 400 Years Wendy Reakes

Publisher Marketing: After the Great Fire of London of 1666, the homeless have nowhere to go. By royal command they are provided with shelter underground, beneath the foundations of St Paul's cathedral. There, locked away from normal life, the population evolve over 400 years without the trappings of the world above...until the 21st century when their existence becomes threatened by the very people who once allowed them to stay. ** In 2016, American tourist, Mark Buzzard, meets a girl with wild red hair, pale skin and eyes that can see in the dark. When he travels with her to the city underground, his presence is met with opposition when he declares his love for the princess Wren. Thrown into jail, a place they call Bedlam, he meets fellow prisoner Charlotte Croft, a columnist, and the wife of a man sent to seize the city and take it back into the hands of the British government. When the two escape and make their way back to the city, a battle begins when the residents fight to protect their heritage, their home, and everything they hold dear. ** The Song of the Underground is a story about a secret world, self-sufficient with its own industry and laws and a mineral like Scapolite, which could be used to illuminate London for the next two centuries. It's a story about modern man's greed and the desire for power, and it's about forbidden love, as two people become divided by two nations.