![]() Fisher's story is just dark enough to stand out from the fantasy pack, and positive and exciting enough that it may well send readers scrambling for other texts on Celtic legends. " Rob's skills as an artist land him a job working on the group's archaeological dig, which in time uncovers a mysterious tree that is growing upside-down, into the earth, planted 4,000 years ago as "an axis, a pole linking this place and the Unworld." Vetch turns out to be much more powerful than Rob first imagined a journey to the Unworld below leads to a confrontation with the King that holds Chloe's psyche captive-and not, it seems, entirely against her will. Vetch speaks in ominous tones: "The word is the reason I've come. Rob gets caught up in the rite, and ends up pulling a man named Vetch from a dark ditch in the ground. ![]() Her older brother, Rob, the principal protagonist, is goofing off with a friend in a field when he stumbles upon a pagan ritual in progress. ![]() The story opens in Avebury near Stonehenge, where young Chloe has been in a coma for three months, the victim of a horseback riding accident. ) infuses her haunting tale with the Celtic legend of Taliesin and Ceridwin. ![]()
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