The Black Tree

The Word and the Sword, #4

Driven from the Paideia and hunted by the armies of the Skull King, Finian and his companions must now embark on a dangerous quest across the Westfeld mountains, leaving the safety of Nulor behind them just as the winter snows begin.

Their mission: to continue searching for the identity of Finian’s parents, and the next clue lies beyond the Westfeld in the unsettled lands of the Dunburians—a fierce, warrior people who are themselves reeling from the Skull King’s advance.

What they find waiting for them in the dark forests and wet fens of Dunbur will haunt Finian for years to come. A malevolent tree that weeps black sap seems to be stirring, awakening . . . and it will take all of Finian’s strength and cunning to defeat the tree’s monstrous servants.

This fourth installment in The Word and the Sword reaches to new heights, filled to the brim with breathless adventure and spine-tingling thrills. Secrets are around every corner, and all the while Finian draws ever closer to discovering the truth about his parents, and his destiny.