Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchman to capture her. Why? she wonders. What would Carrion want with a normal girl who comes from the tiny town of Chickentown, Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of Abarat is familiar to her? Why can she speak words of magic she doesn't even remember learning? There is a mystery here. And Carrion, along with his fiendish grandmother Mater Motley, suspects that whatever Candy is, she could spoil their plans to take control of the Abarat and establish a permanent Midnight throughout the 25 islands that make up Abarat. Candy, aided and abetted by a host of colorful new characters, including Malingo (the affable geshrat she rescued in Book One), continues to dodge Carrion's hired assassins, as forces gather on both sides of Day and Night to prepare for the inevitable war between the Hours. Candy must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night and Day clash and Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands. B. E. Trice Limited Edition of 175 slipcased copies signed by the author.