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that will empower her people, the Golden Ones, to fight the Night
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Fantasy Book Review said that the author put detail into the work as if "he's walked every path, and driven every road that the characters have travelled upon. It all helps to make the book feel that bit more authentic than the average story" and that "it's a good start to the series; with a strong
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Brother of Dragons. One of the Night Walkers, Catalin, tortures Church for information on the stone to no avail. Church also reunites with Tom, who calls the Night Walkers
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Arthurian legends ..sic interwoven with English landscape".
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escape attempt. They reunite with Ruth and reluctantly leave without Tom, whom they cannot find. Church deduces that Ruth and Laura are both
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