Catherine Fisher - Darkhenge

CASTLE HOTEL CORBENIC

The letters were worn, and rain-streaked. Below them, cracked and badly painted, was the pub sign, but instead of a castle all it showed was a crooked yellow chalice. And hanging from that on rusty hooks, swinging so wildly he could barely make it out, a tiny addition read:

VACANCIES

About the Author

Catherine Fisher is the author of many acclaimed novels, including Snow-walker and Corbenic . She lives in Wales.

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CORBENIC

THE ORACLE PROPHECIES:

BOOK ONE: THE ORACLE BETRAYED

BOOK TWO: THE SPHERE OF SECRETS

BOOK THREE: DAY OF THE SCARAB

SNOW-WALKER

Credits

Cover art © 2006 by Ryan Obermeyer

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of authenticity, and are used to advance the fictional narrative. All other

characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s

imagination and are not to be construed as real.

Darkhenge

Copyright © 2005 by Catherine Fisher

First published in 2005 in Great Britain by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.

First published in 2006 in the United States by Greenwillow Books.

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Fisher, Catherine

Darkhenge / by Catherine Fisher.

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Summary: Worried about his sister Chloe’s comatose state after a riding accident, teenage Rob, in an effort to distract himself, gets a job on a secretive local archeological dig and finds himself drawn into a mysterious world of magic involving a powerful, centuries-old, shape-shifting Druid called Vetch who promises to help retrieve his sister from the “unworld” of her coma.

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-078582-6 (trade bdg.) ISBN-10: 0-06-078582-9 (trade bdg.)

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-078583-3 (lib. bdg.) ISBN-10: 0-06-078583-7 (lib. bdg.)

EPub Edition © JANUARY 2012 ISBN: 9780062193766

[1. Magic—Fiction. 2. Space and time—Fiction. 3. Druids and druidism—Fiction. 4. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 5. Archaeology—Fiction. 6. England—Fiction.]

PZ7.F4995Dar 2005 [Fic]—dc22 2004054159

ISBN-10: 0-06-078584-5 (pbk.) ISBN-13: 978-0-06-078584-0 (pbk.)

First Eos paperback edition, 2007

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