The Sable Moon

Nancy Springer, the multiple award–winning fantasist, transports readers to a mystic island kingdom older than time in her Book of Isle saga. A breathtaking series from one of fantasy fiction’s most respected masters, these enthralling novels chronicle the history of a magical island realm of deities, ghosts, lords, and monsters. It is a grand story of secret plots and forbidden passions, of devotion and betrayal, of wars, quests, usurpations, and enchantments that all begin with a union of sun and moon.
 
Springer’s thrilling, lyrically written multivolume adventure spans generations and epochs as the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of gods, goddesses, and kings become enmeshed in intrigues of sorcery and power, ultimately growing into legendary players in great struggles for domination, vengeance, love, and freedom. Here unlikely heroes are forced to embrace their destinies while foul villains plot their doom, abused royal progeny take up arms against cruel and ruthless fathers in wars that will devastate the land, new religions rise, and old ones fall as ancient gods slumber in the island’s dense forests in what is perhaps the most beautifully realized fantasy world since J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth.