- Paperback: 560 pages
- Publisher: UK General Books (Jun 16 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0007169299
- ISBN-13: 978-0007169290
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 748 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,788,018 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Book Description
A rich and evocative tale, set in a mythic 15th-century Britain, to rival the work of Bernard Cornwell.
In Nether Norton village, life goes on as it has for centuries in the Realm, through the coming and going of the Slavers and the arrival of the Sightless Ones and their Chapter Houses. Will reflects on the two happy years since he and Willow circled the fire together, and the recent birth of their daughter, Bethe. Yet feelings of unease stir inside him. An unnatural storm rages on the horizon. Is his past coming back to haunt him?
Four years ago, Will ended a bloody battle by cracking the Doomstone in the vault of the Chapter House at Verlamion. It seemed then that the lust for war in men's hearts had been calmed forever. No longer so certain, Will seeks advice from his mentor Gwydion, a wizard of deep knowledge and power, once called 'Merlyn'. Gwydion suspects his old enemy, the sorcerer Maskull, has escaped from the prison to which he was banished when Will cracked the Doomstone. Is Maskull again working to hasten a devastating war between King Hal and Duke Richard of Ebor, helped by the battlestones that litter the landscape, inciting hatred in all who draw near?
Only Will - an incarnation of King Arthur, Gwydion believes - has the skill to break the power of the battlestones. Will last left Nether Norton as a youth of 13. Now a husband and father, he has a lot more to lose. But he has a whole Realm to save.
About the Author
Robert Carter was born exactly five hundred years after the first battle of the Wars of the Roses. He was brought up in the Midlands and later on the shores of the Irish Sea where his forebears hail from. He was variously educated in Britain, Australia and the United States, then worked for some years in the Middle East and remote parts of Africa. He travelled widely in the East, before joining the BBC in London in 1982. His interests have included astronomy, pole-arm fighting, canals, collecting armour, steam engines, composing music and enjoying the English countryside, and he has always maintained a keen interest in history. Today he lives in a 'village' that only sounds rural - Shepherd's Bush.
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