
By Susan Cooper
Book #5 in the The Dark Is Rising Sequence series
The Light's champions face the Dark's final rise. Can they prevail?
In the epic finale, Will Stanton and his allies, including the enigmatic Bran and the Drew siblings, confront the Dark's ultimate threat. As they journey through time and myth-laden landscapes of Britain, they must secure the crystal sword, the last hope against the encroaching darkness. With ancient signs and the fate of the world at stake, can these champions of Light overcome fear and death in the Welsh hills? The battle's outcome will decide the world's future, but even with powerful talismans, victory is uncertain. Will the Light triumph in this climactic struggle?
The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton – last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free – must join forces with this ageless master Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light. Drawn in with them are the three Drew children, who are mortal, but have their own vital part in the story. These six fight fear and death in the darkly brooding Welsh hills, in a quest through time and space that touches the most ancient myths of the British Isles, and that brings Susan Cooper’s masterful sequence of novels to a satysfying close.
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