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Sixteen year old Christopher Ridley has known nothing else but his life at a small orphanage. But all that will change when he is whisked away in the dead of the night by an elfin creature who warns him that he is in grave danger. Christopher's powerful magical aura has attracted two forces: the elves, who use magic for good, and a chilling order called The Society, who use magic for evil. Both forces believe he is part of an ancient prophecy finally coming true. Christopher must...
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Sixteen year old Christopher Ridley has known nothing else but his life at a small orphanage. But all that will change when he is whisked away in the dead of the night by an elfin creature who warns him that he is in grave danger. Christopher's powerful magical aura has attracted two forces: the elves, who use magic for good, and a chilling order called The Society, who use magic for evil. Both forces believe he is part of an ancient prophecy finally coming true. Christopher must embark on a perilous quest to vanquish the evil, but he does have a few distractions--a cryptic spider, the extraordinarily beautiful elfin princess Adina, and a member of The Society called The Hunter, who wants to make sure Christopher never reaches his destination.Join him, and your life will never be the same.Gale crafts a web of intricate characters and twisting plot lines in her striking debut novel.