James Treadwell

First in an astonishingly imaginative fantasy trilogy, "Advent" describes howmagic was lost to the world, and how a 15-year-old English boy discovers thatits return is his inheritance.

On a tiny archipelago out of sight of the rest of the world lives Rory, a ten-year-old boy. He and his mother and a handful of survivors live an exhausting and precarious existence, entirely isolated. The sea is alive, and angry. Every man Rory can remember has been drowned. Everyone knows he'll be next. One night, for the first time since the world changed and the curse descended, strangers appear on the island. They're on their way to England, seeking...