Books with title The Merlin Conspiracy

A thousand years have passed since the dreaded Wyrm King nearly succeeded in enslaving the townspeople of Wormwell. Now memories of the Wyrm King have faded to nothing more than fireside tales and nursery rhymes. But the Wyrm King has been waiting, and plotting, and his patience has finally been rewarded. Powerful people in the town want the Wyrm King to return, and they will stop at nothing to achieve their goal. Only Emily and Sam stand between these powerful forces and the destruction of Wormwell. But what can two twelve-year olds do against such evil? Their quest to uncover the conspiracy and stop the Wyrm King will take every last measure of their courage, invention and determination.

The story is narrated by two very different teenagers, who each inhabit two extraordinarily different worlds. Arianrhod Hyde's world (or Roddy, as she prefers to be called) is very much the world of magic, pageantry and ritual. Not unlike Britain in King Arthur's Day, Roddy is daughter of two Court Wizards and therefore part of the King's Progress, travelling round the Islands of Blest and ready to take part in whatever ritual or ceremony is required, as it occurs. Presiding over all, the most important person is the Merlin, who is entrusted with the magical health of the Isles of Blest.

On an island of sandy beaches, dense jungles, and slumbering volcanoes, colonists seek to apply archaic laws to a new land, bounty hunters stalk the living for the ashes of their funerary pyres, and a smiling tribe is despised by all as traitorous murderers. It is here, in the midst of ancient tensions and new calamity, that two sisters are caught in a deadly web of deceits. Arilou is proclaimed a beautiful prophetess—one of the island's precious oracles: a Lost. Hathin, her junior, is her nearly invisible attendant. But neither Arilou nor Hathin is exactly what she seems, and they live a lie that is carefully constructed and jealously guarded. When the sisters are unknowingly drawn into a sinister, island-wide conspiracy, quiet, unobtrusive Hathin must journey beyond all she has ever known of her world—and of herself—in a desperate attempt to save them both. As the stakes mount and falsehoods unravel, she discovers that the only thing more dangerous than the secret she hides is the truth she must uncover.

Can the truth set you free?The refugee caves have been destroyed,and most of the refugees are dead. The Potentate now knows of theirexistence and will stop at nothing to wipe them out completely. Hesuspects that terrorist Jackson MacNamera is among them, as well asreporter Kate Brandeis's fiancé, hacker Will Anderson--and probablytherefore Kate herself. Now that the Potentate is aware of securitythreats, most of the strategies the rebels used to get back onto thegrid before now no longer work. The Potentate knows the rebels are onfoot, and he knows they were at the caves not long ago--they can't getfar.The remaining rebels, among them Jackson and Kate, have Kate's fiancé Will to thank for their survival: hearrived back from the dead and in the nick of time, bearing classifiedinformation about the Potentate's plans to expand his influenceinternationally. But the remaining rebels and the Council cannot agreeon whether their top priority should be spreading truth far and wide and freeing as many citizens from government control as possible, knowingthat they will likely die in the process--or escaping to New Estonia, inhopes that they might live out the rest of their days in peace.Kate, meanwhile, finds herself torn:between Jackson and the fiancé she thought she lost, and between thedamsel-in-distress she once was, and the rebel she believes she hasalways been underneath. Whether the other hunters will support her orno, she knows she must use her influence over the people of the Republic to tell them the truth, no matter the cost. But is she strong enough to withstand the government's lies?

The refugee caves have been destroyed, and most of the refugees are dead. The Potentate now knows of their existence and will stop at nothing to wipe them out completely. He suspects that terrorist Jackson MacNamera is among them, as well as reporter Kate Brandeis's fiancé, hacker Will Anderson-and probably therefore Kate herself. Now that the Potentate is aware of security threats, most of the strategies the rebels used to get back onto the grid before now no longer work. The Potentate knows the rebels are on foot, and he knows they were at the caves not long ago-they can't get far. The remaining rebels, among them Jackson and Kate, have Kate's fiancé Will to thank for their survival: he arrived back from the dead and in the nick of time, bearing classified information about the Potentate's plans to expand his influence internationally. But the remaining rebels and the Council cannot agree on whether their top priority should be spreading truth far and wide and freeing as many citizens from government control as possible, knowing that they will likely die in the process-or escaping to New Estonia, in hopes that they might live out the rest of their days in peace. Kate, meanwhile, finds herself torn: between Jackson and the fiancé she thought she lost, and between the damsel-in-distress she once was, and the rebel she believes she has always been underneath. Whether the other hunters will support her or no, she knows she must use her influence over the people of the Republic to tell them the truth, no matter the cost. But is she strong enough to withstand the government's lies?