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Emlyn's phone rang. The screen displayed his sister's number. Pocketing it, he moved on. His only thought now was running and evasion, but there was nowhere to go. Ahead, the bridge was a dark throat in the snow. He was being swallowed ... something terrible was about to happen.

Drawn to the ancient site known as Sleeper's Spinney, Emlyn and Maxine unleash an unearthly power when they remove one of a group of wooden horsemen hidden beneath the earth. Containing the trapped spirits of Arthur and his men, the carvings have been held in check since the Dark Ages by a long line of Keepers. With the Keepers prepared to stop at nothing to recover the horseman, Emlyn and Maxine are drawn into a parallel world of myth, magic and the supernatural.

Vividly narrated by the warrior Cei, Arthur's master-at-arms, The Stone Crown intertwines the Dark Ages - a time when death stalked the valleys and hope fled before the sword - with a contemporary coming-of-age story. Malcolm Walker's chilling prose invites the reader to take flight across the bracken-clad slopes of the Scottish Borders as Maxine and Emlyn endeavour to outwit the Keepers.

But as Merlin says, "Death is a fey companion and will drink from any well."

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