CHESTNUT SOLDIER from The Magician Trilogy
By Jenny Nimmo

When a strong and ancient evil escapes from the charred body of a broken toy horse, and a mysterious stranger arrives, things begin to go horribly wrong.  Suddenly friends and sisters are fighting, and a dark force blankets Gwyn’s quiet town.  Can Gwyn and Arianwen, the Snow Spider, summon the power to fight this last, terrible battle?

Excerpt:
Gwyn didn’t know how to tell her and so he called back, “No, I haven’t seen Iolo.”  And then, suddenly, in wild indecision, “Well…”
            “What was that?” his mother shouted.
            “Nothing,” he said miserably.  He’d lost his chance.
            Emlyn Llewelyn had been the last person to see Iolo.  He had passed the chapel, Emlyn said, at half past six.  He was alone and appeared to be heading to the mountain.
            Mrs. Lloyd phoned the police.  A search party was organized: Idris and Emlyn, Gwyn and his father, Mr. Lloyd and a few neighboring farmers and their sons.  Twenty men set off, on foot, to comb the mountain fields.  A bitter wind thrashed against their faces but the rain held off and the moon was full.  Clusters of stars could be seen, glittering through the driven threadbare clouds.

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