"Classic portal fantasy." —Guardian
"Yep, been there, done that, bought one too many t-shirts and seen the movie in its special 10th anniversary boxed set, would be my reaction too if it wasn't for the fact that the two authors have managed make it seem like no one has ever written this type of story before." —BlogCritics.org
Return to the land of Eldarn, and the race to find Lessek's key and save the people of two worlds! The Larion spell table has been dormant for nearly a thousand Twinmoons. It waits in a forgotten chamber in Sandcliff Palace, the abandoned Larion Senate stronghold on Eldarn's North Sea. The spell table holds the power to see the people of the five lands safely through the oppression and brutality that have haunted them for generations, but without Lessek's key it is a worthless slab of granite—and Lessek's key itself is just a nondescript stone Steven Taylor and Mark Jenkins overlooked on the night they fell through the far portal into Eldarn. Retrieving the key and freeing Eldarn's people rests with Steven Taylor, the would-be sorcerer from Colorado, who is racing across America with Nerak, the fallen Larion dictator, hot on his heels. Steven must reach Idaho Springs and find Lessek's key before it falls into Nerak's hands and is lost for ever—and with it, the lives of untold millions, in both of Steven's worlds.
Robert Scott and Jay Gordon are coauthors of The Hickory Staff and The Larion Senators. Robert Scott lives in Virginia.
Fantasy
528 pages, Cloth, 6 x 9
Distribution Rights: US
$37.95
9780575076082 (0575076089) Pub Date: August 2006
Gollancz