The Dark Guardian
(2015)(Aster Wood and the Blackburn Son)
(The third book in the Magic Doorways series)A novel by J B Cantwell
The threat of murder. A desperate boy. The dark mind of a madman.
Everything in Aster's world has fallen apart. The great sorcerer, Almara, has leapt to his death to protect Aster and Jade, leaving them lost and without a guide to the cosmos.
Aster has won the Book of Leveling, but Jade is no longer able to resist the power of the evil madman, the Corentin. She has fallen into his trap, hungry for more of the malice and cruelty she secretly loves.
Aster is alone once more, unable to clear his mind of the loss of his best friend and her mentor father. But when he discovers the armies assembling to attack the cities in the Triaden and sees how the children of the lands are being used to fuel the campaign, he is renewed in his resolve to set things right in the Maylin Fold.
He must find his way back to the friends who will stand beside him in the great battles to come. But when he finds the city of Stonemore under a wicked enchantment, nothing is as he remembers.
Now, Aster must seek the great gold stone that Jade possesses, hoping that it will be enough to balance the Fold, and that his own magic will finally break through the fear of failure that has plagued him all along.
Previously published as Aster Wood and the Blackburn Son by J. B. Cantwell
Genre: Children's Fiction
Everything in Aster's world has fallen apart. The great sorcerer, Almara, has leapt to his death to protect Aster and Jade, leaving them lost and without a guide to the cosmos.
Aster has won the Book of Leveling, but Jade is no longer able to resist the power of the evil madman, the Corentin. She has fallen into his trap, hungry for more of the malice and cruelty she secretly loves.
Aster is alone once more, unable to clear his mind of the loss of his best friend and her mentor father. But when he discovers the armies assembling to attack the cities in the Triaden and sees how the children of the lands are being used to fuel the campaign, he is renewed in his resolve to set things right in the Maylin Fold.
He must find his way back to the friends who will stand beside him in the great battles to come. But when he finds the city of Stonemore under a wicked enchantment, nothing is as he remembers.
Now, Aster must seek the great gold stone that Jade possesses, hoping that it will be enough to balance the Fold, and that his own magic will finally break through the fear of failure that has plagued him all along.
Previously published as Aster Wood and the Blackburn Son by J. B. Cantwell
Genre: Children's Fiction
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