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by Royce Buckingham (Author)
Guided by a massive clan book containing tales of their ancestors, the Hilltoppers arrive in Abrogan, pledging allegiance to their King. They have crossed a forbidding ocean to another land where birds speak messages, poisonous sleep-animals lurk, warriors struggle for power and Lords bend the truth on a whim. Ian Krystal, leader of the Hilltoppers, becomes an unlikely leader, charged with building roads, clearing a menacing bog full of savages, chasing down bands of thieves and in the process emerges a champion of the people. Petrich is the clan's scribe, meant to chronicle their journeys while learning the fine art of mapping from a renegade Lord. As a child, darkness sheltered him from marauding tribesmen and he carries it with him. The emerging City of Skye is being built in the new land. King Blackpool's nephew struggles with his power and the King arrives determined to double his empire. Can an honest man of integrity prevail in a land of intrigue? And the dark is hungry.
Author Biography
About Royce Buckingham Royce Buckingham is a Washington State author with an English degree from Whitman College and a Law degree from the University of Oregon. Royce wrote for 13 years before he sold his first novel, DEMONKEEPER. He has since made numerous reading lists with his middle grade monster books, has had novels published in more than ten countries, and has hit the bestseller list overseas with both DEMONKEEPER and his medieval fantasy series, MAPPER, which is published in both Germany and the U.S.. He won Washington's Sasquatch Award for Best Middle Grade Novel with his ghost story THE DEAD BOYS, which is set in Richland, WA, where he grew up near the Hanford nuclear plant (which explains a few things). Royce has now written eleven novels for Penguin, St. Martin's Press, and Random House. He sold his screenplay DEMONKEEPER to 20th Century Fox in 2006, and he recently attended DEMONKEEPER the stage play at Western Washington University. He's penned a YA thriller, THE TERMINALS, and an adult thriller, IMPASSE, and his medieval epic PRINCESS ASSASSIN will be released by Random House in Germany in 2017. Royce lives in Bellingham, WA with his beautiful wife and two fabulous boys.
