In the depths of Broceliande - an ancient French woodland - Merlin and the enchantress Vivien play out their deadly feud. Martin and Rebecca are ensnared by the forest's net of enchantment, and she is sucked into its twilight world.

Long ago, so the Storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. So long as it lay at Riva, the prophecy went, men would be safe. But that was only a story, and Garion did not believe in magic dooms, even though the dark man without a shadow had haunted him for years. Brought up on a quiet farm by his Aunt Pol, how could he know that the Apostate planned to wake dread...

The heavy action was supposedly at Crydee these days which meant that the one place they could be sure the three of them were not going was Crydee. Come spring, the privateer Melanie was due in Ylith, and its captain could be counted on for a swift conveyance away for sure, and likely not to murder them in their sleep. That would be bad for business. But away where? That wasnt Durines worry. Kethol would surely be able to find the three of them somebody who needed men who knew which part...

Tangleton. Two children come to live on the outskirts of a Cotswold village and begin to enjoy the pleasures of country living. But why does the village seem so sad and unloved? And what is the secret of the Hall, that makes it so forbidding?