Larry McCrehin

Ghosts in the Trees Larry McCrehin

You will embark in the 650 pages of Ghosts in the Trees, Peri and the Fairy War, on a five-book voyage tracking the perils of a Fairy Princess, stolen by the elves as a baby. Discovered by fairies, a war immediately ensues, while Peri escapes and is joined along the way with companions. As the story opens, the Princess Peri is fourteen, five-foot five. Fear taught as well as kept ignorant of the "far-aways," she is ill prepared to escape her pursuers. To complicate her flight, her Fairy Queen Mother's sister has a daughter expected to be heir to the throne. Enraged at the surfacing of a Princess thought long dead, the sister sends her own loyal fairies after Peri to kill her. Dilemma: how do Peri and her friends know which fairies are friends, and which are foes? This "who is who" extends to the elves also, for many are on her side. Strong character development will draw you into their stumbling romances, their fears, hopes, hates, and the challenges of friendship. In the background, the horrors of civil war drive that story onward. As friends and families torn assunder suffer the atrocities of war, revenge rather than rescue becomes the battle cry, the Fairy Princess all but forgotten. The war becomes overshadowed by a greater threat in the run-on second book, Peri and the Cold Watchers. A mysterious power chooses this troubled time to emerge, sending dead creatures driven by spirits to slay Peri and her budding fourteen-year-old sorceress Gipi. The series embraces themes including sorcery, magical creatures, coming of age, justice, morality, romance and perhaps most importantly, the strains and values of friendship. Note: The author wrote this story for the boy he once was; the boy who needed it then.