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Narrator: Riddell, Chris
Format: Unabridged CD
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Published: Jan 2009
Nate Quarter is a lowly lamplighter in the phraxmines of the Eastern Woods, until treachery forces him to flee for his life - to the mighty city of Great Glade.
But these are terrible times. In far-off Hive - the spectacular city founded by the goblin tribes - the clan leaders are preparing for war. And out beyond the dread Nightwoods, in the fabled gardens of Riverrise, a one-eye waif jealously guards the life-giving waters of the mystical Rivverrise spring...
Swept up in the maelstrom that follows, Nate and a small band of intrepid friends must set off on an epic journey that is to lead them into terrible peril. And all the while, form over the Edge cliff itself, a storm, unlike any ever seen before, is building - a storm that is to roll across the land, bringing both echoes of the past and the promise of a new beginning...