Publisher's Synopsis
The Sign of the Sword is an allegory in the tradition of C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. It tells of the journey of four American teens and their teacher into an unearthly realm peopled by the ancestors of a shipwrecked raiding party of Arthurian-era Britons and held in the grip of a demonic being called Samhain. This world serves as the necessary backdrop for the story of a group of young students struggling to deal with the issues surrounding the death of a friend. It is a tale of love and friendship, of guilt and redemption, of death and the hope of a life beyond death. The author combines high fantasy, Arthurian legend, science fiction, and horror to create a universe brimming with religious metaphor yet still enjoyable for its own sake.
