Jake's father disappears while working on mysterious experiments with the obsessive, reclusive Oberon Venn. Jake is convinced Venn has murdered him. But the truth he finds at the snow-bound Wintercombe Abbey is far stranger ...
The experiments concerned a black mirror, which is a portal to both the past and the future. Venn is not alone in wanting to use its powers. Strangers begin gathering in and around Venn's estate: Sarah - a runaway, who appears out of nowhere and is clearly not what she says, Maskelyne - who claims the mirror was stolen from him in some past century. There are others, a product of the mirror's power to twist time. And a tribe of elemental beings surround this isolated estate, fey, cold, untrustworthy, and filled with hate for humans. But of them all, Jake is hell-bent on using the mirror to get to the truth. Whatever the cost, he must learn what really happened to his father.
ISBN: | 9780340970089 |
Publication date: | 4th October 2012 |
Author: | Catherine Fisher |
Publisher: | Hodder Children's Books an imprint of Hachette Children's Group |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 393 pages |
Series: | Shakespeare Quartet |
Genres: |
Fantasy / Magical Adventure Stories Science Fiction |