Book Four of The Land Inside Time
"The moment I first set eyes on those Jewels, my heart froze. It was as though some evil lived at the pinprick centre of each stone, something deathly, like a panther crouched for the pounce."
Two Worlds, Two Rules. Time & Evil...
The bridge between the twin worlds of Dyall's Ford and Animarl falls silent. Animarlian sorcerer Argilan, convinced time itself is ending, abandons his quest to draw the Key from Dyall's Ford and so restore the bridge.
The sorcerer also refuses to help dragon-man Linden Wilder reclaim the evil Margundor Jewels from his demented brother Barto, who is using them to devastate Animarl.
When Wilder sets out alone to destroy the Jewels, Barto slaughters everyone dear to him, and Linden finds himself fighting an entire world turned to wickedness, a world trapped in time and spiralling ever faster inward to its endpoint.
"I know not how long we travelled. It felt both momentary and eternal together, a foul sequence of events endlessly repeating, such that I was trapped in what the ancients called Forever's Midnight, a time-place of ceaseless dark and despair and fright."