{"product_id":"advent-9781451661651","title":"Advent","description":"\u003cb\u003eMagic abounds in this \"bewitchingly perplexing and supernaturally entertaining\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e) debut, and \"readers of Susan Cooper and Alan Garner will rejoice to find...[a] trilogy worthy of sharing their shelf\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review). Don't miss the whole series--\u003ci\u003eAnarchy \u003c\/i\u003eand the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eArcadia\u003c\/i\u003e!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Gavin Stokes visits an estranged family member at Pendurra, a distant estate in Cornwall, the last thing he expects is to enter a world where the consequences of an ancient betrayal are being played out. If he accepts the challenge that this new world presents, he must confront an ancient evil and the crimes of the past that have taken the form of ghosts, like Miss Grey, who has haunted him from earliest childhood, and Marina, a little girl who also lives at Pendurra, and Swanny, Marina's mother, a mermaid. What Gavin soon discovers is that magic is real...and menacingly dangerous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTreadwell, James:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - James Treadwell is the author of \u003ci\u003eAdvent \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAnarchy. \u003c\/i\u003eHe was born, brought up, and educated within a mile of the Thames and has spent much of his life further reducing the distance between him and the river. He studied and taught for more than a decade near the crossing at Folly Bridge, Oxford, and now lives within sight of the Tideway in West London. He holds passports from the UK, US, and Canada.","brand":"Emily Bestler Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52033949892882,"sku":"9781451661651","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_473da91b-9e38-4d48-a3c0-44e7727266fa.jpg?v=1770981067","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/advent-9781451661651","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}