Bestselling novelist Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom for the never-before-told love story of Sabriel\'s parents, Terciel and Elinor, and the charter magic that brought them together--and threatened to tear them apart.
Maas, #1 New York Times bestselling author. --Sarah J.
I will never get enough of the Old Kingdom.
One of the greatest living fantasy writers.
In a single day of fire and death and loss, Elinor finds herself set on a path which will take her into the Old Kingdom, into Terciel\'s life, and will embroil her in the struggle of the Abhorsens against the Dead who will not stay dead.
Elinor does not know she is deeply connected to the Old Kingdom, nor that magic can sometimes come across the Wall, until a plot by an ancient enemy of the Abhorsens brings Terciel and Tizanael to Ancelstierre. but perhaps there is even more to fear from that. . .
Her mother is a tyrant, who is feared by all despite her sickness and impending death .
Her only friends an old governess and an even older groom who was once a famous circus performer.
Across the Wall in Ancelstierre, a steam-age country where magic usually does not work, nineteen year-old Elinor lives a secluded life.
He is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and Tizanael is the Abhorsen, the latest in a long line of people whose task it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life.
But not to raise the Dead, rather to lay them to rest.
In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, eighteen year-old orphan Terciel learns the art of necromancy from his great-aunt Tizanael.
A long-awaited prequel to a classic fantasy series.
Bestselling novelist Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom for the never-before-told love story of Sabriel\'s parents, Terciel and Elinor, and the charter magic that brought them together--and threatened to tear them apart
