'The Time of the Dark' by Barbara Hambly follows the story of Gil Patterson, a scholar who is drawn into another world where she must join forces with a magician named Ingold Inglorion and a biker named Rudy to combat the mysterious Dark beings threatening civilization. As they navigate the dangers of this medieval world filled with magic, the characters face the looming threat of the Dark while also grappling with the societal challenges of preserving knowledge and cohesion. The plot unfolds with engaging writing that immerses readers into a rich and gritty setting, filled with vivid descriptions and well-developed characters who evolve throughout the story.
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The book includes themes of violence, dark forces, and psychological horror, which may be intense for some readers.
From The Publisher:
A California medieval scholar is pulled into a far-off magical world—and a fight to save mankind—in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. As a student of medieval history, Gil Patterson is a woman familiar with dark stories.
She knows well the Crusades, the Black Death, and the other horrors of the Middle Ages, but it is another kind of atrocity that has begun to haunt her dreams. She sees forces of evil assaulting a beleaguered kingdom, whose kind people are on the brink of annihilation, and awakes each morning in a cold sweat.
Gil dismisses the dreams until a wizard appears in her apartment. He has crossed into her dimension, passing through the fraying fabric of the universe, to ask her help. For mankind to survive he must protect an infant prince, whom he plans to hide in Gil's world.
The student of history is about to get much closer to evil than she ever imagined. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barbara Hambly, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
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