Title: WITCH'S HONOUR
First published: 2002
Description: The world of myth and magic is being wound ever more closely with reality: in basements filled with smokey shadows, dancers perform to primitive rhythms while painted frescoes melt and change on the walls; primeval symbols adorn new advertising campaigns; computers are invaded by unprogrammed messages. The Dark Tower of ancient tales is reincarnated as a sky-scraper faceted with black glass.Where once he employed pagan religions and tribal gods to achieve control, now the Old Spirit uses the modern religions of money and greed to suborn the hearts of Men. He has gained mastery of another of Prospero’s Children – a young man descended from lost Atlantis and as Gifted as Fern – and through him can manipulate a business empire greater than any individual nation or deity.His time is nearing: it is now 10,000 years since the Fall of Atlantis, the birth of the third millennium (2001 – exactly when we publish): a date of magical significance, and the long-lost Lodestone is stirring once more…Perhaps this time, Fern will find that this is a battle that she cannot win.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general