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Prospero's Children

Fern Capel series

A young girl who is more than she knows. A man who is more than he seems. A beautiful woman in love with death. An evil older than mankind. All in search of a magical key that will open a door leading beyond time and space to the ending of all things...

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It began ages past in fabled Atlantis, when a mad, power-hungry queen forged a magical key to a door never meant to be opened by mortal man—its inception would hasten her own death and the extinction of her vainglorious race. For millennia the key lay forgotten beneath the waves, lost amid the ruins of what had been the most beautiful city on Earth. But however jealously the sea hoards its secrets, sooner or later it yields them up. Now, in present-day Yorkshire, that time has come. And for young Fernanda Capel, life will never be the same again.

Audience
young adultadultchildrens
Length
medium · 368 pages

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