Picture a world intricately entwined with our own, yet separate, pulsing with the raw energy and vivid color of Celtic myth come to life. Picture Albion.
And enter Lewis Gillies, an Oxford student whose search for a missing friend leads him through a door to another reality and to unimagined discoveries about life, good and evil, and his own identity and destiny.
"Before Albion is one, the Hero Feat must be performed and Silver Hand must reign." The words of a prophetess foretell a coming king. But Lewis, as Albion's renowned champion Llew, has a more immediate concern: retrieving the treacherous Siawn-Hy, who has eluded him in the doorway between worlds and who now, lusting for power, has allied himself with the usurper Meldron.
Forced to flee for their lives, Llew and the bard Tegid, both horribly wounded, find refuge deep in Albion's heartland. Under their leadership, a wilderness citadel arises. And in the heat of battle, the miraculous reign of Silver Hand begins.
When the king dies in Albion, a land of Celtic myth, his son doesn't automatically ascend to the throne. Instead, the bard Tegid gets to name the successor. The bard's choice of the visitor Llew angers the late king's son into a rage of vengeance in which he disfigures his two challengers and leaves them for dead. The world of Albion is confusing at first, since the story unfolds in the native Tegid's voice, but once one grows accustomed, it's engrossing. Stuart Langton reads with a poetic voice well suited to a storytelling bard. J.A.S. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
--Forbidden Planet...
An epic struggle between Light and Darkness… well paced, exciting, and well researched.
--Publisher's Weekly...
"Lawhead invests his often poetic vision of a Celtic land living by ancient laws with charm and dignity."
About the Creator
Stephen R. Lawhead is an internationally acclaimed author of fantasy and imaginative fiction. Although born and raised in America, his research into Celtic legend and lore brought him to Oxford, England, where he now resides with his wife, writer Alice Slaikeu Lawhead, and their two sons, Ross and Drake.
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