The snowmelt river
Series: Three Powers -- bk. 1
Publisher: Swift
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9781874082484
Subjects: Teenagers; Fiction
Description: Chance has brought together four young people in the small, historic Irish town of Clonmel. Alan is American, Kate Irish, and the adoptive brother and sister, Mark and Mo, are Londoners - although Mo, who originally hails from Australia, has an exotic spiritual quality about her. They discover that they share a terrible secret in common, one that cannot be coincidence, and it makes them wonder if it was fate, and not happenstance, that really brought them together, and which now binds them inseparably as friends. And then, over the long hot summer, the calling begins ... The four friends are drawn to the fabled mountain of Slievenamon, a mountain enshrined in magic and legend, on the summit of which is the Gate of Feimhin, which will take them into the enchanted but war-ravaged world of Tir, a strange land of magic and wonder. With the help of the Amazonian army of the Shee and the courage and skill of the Olhyiu - the Children of the Sea - they sail the spectacular Snowmelt River in the mystical Temple Ship. Through a perilous wilderness, fought over by the spiritual forces of good and evil, they set out to rescue the enslaved Olhyiu and avenge the murders of their own families - a seemingly impossible quest for their arch enemy, the Tyrant of the Wastelands, is said to be immortal. "The Snowmelt River" is the first of a four-volume fantasy series, with each book a separate adventure in itself. All four novels revolve around the coming of age, and power, of the central characters, each a very different personality, yet each making his or her personal contribution to an epic odyssey.