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| Author/Contributor(s): | Siegel, Jan |
| Publisher: | Del Rey |
| Date: | 9/30/2003 |
| Binding: | Mass-market Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Jan Siegel has created one of the most compelling fantasy series in recent began with Prospero’s Children and continued with The Dragon Charmer now comesto a dazzling conclusion with The Witch Queen. Magnetically gifted Fern Capelhas at last come into her own with her magical powers—and just in time. . . .
Itis a fearsome world of witches, dragons, and goblins, where a gnarled tree bearsfruit of human heads. Fern Capel believes she has left it all behind. But now thatworld is seeping into modern day England: The witch-queen Morgus, who had imprisonedFern in the ghostly Otherworld, has returned from countless years of exile beneaththe gruesome Eternal Tree. Stalking the twenty-first century in her Prada stilettos,Morgus has the mindset of the Dark Ages and vows to rule the ancient kingdom ofLogrez, now modern Britain.
Most of all, Morgus wants revenge on Fern Capel. Rejuvenatedthrough sorcery, neither charm nor weapon can harm the witch-queen. She has planteda cutting from the Eternal Tree in the real world and awaits with impatience theripening of its terrifying bounty. When Fern learns that her enemy cannot be defeatedthrough conventional means, she turns to her best friend, Gaynor, her brother, Will, her old mentor, Ragginbone, and Maldo, the goblin-queen. Together, they trackMorgus through London’s high-society parties and seedy, sinister contacts, untilthey finally draw a magic circle in a Soho basement. Fern Capel knows that survivalis not enough: This time she must win. But she does not yet understand how high aprice she will have to pay.
In this thrilling final novel of her acclaimed trilogy,Jan Siegel takes advantage of her greatest strengths as a writer—weaving magic intoa modern-day world and bringing vivid life to a host of characters that readers willnot soon forget.
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