[Magic Kingdom of Landover 05] - Witches' Brew (39 page)

A year had passed since Ben Holiday had bought the Magic Kingdom from the wizard Meeks, who had set a series of pitfalls against him. Troubled by dreams of disaster to his former partner, Miles Bennett, Ben had traveled to Earth. But unknown to Ben, the dreams had been a trap set by Meeks, who then returned to the Magic Kingdom as a tiny insect hidden in Ben's clothing and cast a spell to switch appearances with him. Soon Ben became an outcast, no longer recognized by any friend. Of course, there was the prism cat, whatever that was … And where was Willow—and the mysterious black unicorn she had set out to find?

THE BLACK UNICORN
Book Two of
The Magic Kingdom of Landover
by Terry Brooks
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Available in your local bookstore.

It all began when the half-able wizard Questor Thews announced that, finally, he could restore the Court Scribe Abernathy to human form. It was his spell that had turned Abernathy into a Wheaten Terrier—though with hands and the ability to talk.

All went well—until the wizard breathed in the magic dust of his spell and suddenly sneezed. Then, where Abernathy stood, there was only a bottle containing a particularly evil imp.

High Lord Ben Holiday set forth for Earth, but without the soil of Landover in which to root as a tree at times, Willow could not long survive.

That left it up to Questor Thews to save them. And to make matters worse, the imp had escaped …

WIZARD AT LARGE
Book Three of
The Magic Kingdom of Landover
by Terry Brooks
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Available in your local bookstore.

Everything should have been quiet and pleasant for Ben Holiday, former Chicago lawyer become sovereign of the Magic Kingdom of Landover. But it wasn't.

Horris Kew, conjurer, confidence man, and trickster, had returned to Landover from Ben's own world, sent by the Gorse, a sorcerer of great evil, whom Horris had unwittingly freed from the magic Tangle Box. Now it had returned to enslave those who had once dared to condemn it. But first it would rid Landover of all who could stand in its way …

THE TANGLE BOX
Book Four of
The Magic Kingdom of Landover
by Terry Brooks
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Available in your local bookstore.

Twenty years ago, Terry Brooks turned fantasy fiction on its head with
The Sword of Shannara
, the first fantasy novel to make the mainstream bestseller lists, and the first in an unbroken string of thirteen bestselling books.

Now Brooks does nothing less than revitalize fantasy fiction again, inventing the complex and powerful new mythos of the Word and the Void, good versus evil still, but played out in the theater-in-the-round of the “real world” of our present.

RUNNING WITH
THE DEMON
A Novel of Good and Evil
by Terry Brooks

Published by The Random House Publishing Group. Available in your local bookstore.