Seventh Voice

<b>David Ashworth builds systems for a living. He does not hear voices.</b><br><br>A data scientist and quiet Christian living in rural Sussex, David has spent seven years building a life that makes sense — a wife who grounds him, two children who need him, a mind that finds patterns in everything. The blackouts are nothing. The handwriting on Post-it notes he doesn't remember writing is nothing. The moments where his wife says "e;you were someone else"e; are nothing he can't explain away.<br><br>Then he visits Chartres Cathedral, and a woman who died seven hundred years ago opens her eyes inside his head.<br><br>She recognises the carvings. Not as art. As a message she helped encode.<br><br>As David's world fractures, more voices surface a biblical scribe, a Templar knight, a Victorian seamstress, each carrying a fragment of knowledge about the most dangerous object in human history. Each placed inside him by a bloodline that stretches back 2,600 years.<br><br>His therapist wants to help him. She is the most dangerous person in his life.<br><br><i>Seven years. Seven alters. Seven voices. One of them is lying.</i>