Precious Cargo

Precious Cargo is Peter's work in progress, likely to be finished by Spring 2008.

This is his second Honeyman novel, where the satanic coven has devised a fertility clinic, ‘Precious Cargo’, which promises beautiful and gifted children when all other scientific means have failed. All that is required is a perverted sacrament.

The clinic’s role goes far beyond conception. It gives each family a baptism gift, a unique handcrafted toy that forms a special protective bond with the child, nurturing the child’s talent and aspirations.

Two children are born through the clinic every year, but Honeyman has discovered that only one child ever survives past age sixteen. The baptism toys seem to understand what is at stake, but the fate of the child is linked to a Faberge egg that boasts an impossible lock, its contents holding the keys to life and death…