In his bestselling book Join Me, Danny Wallace instructs his legions of followers to perform a ' Random Act of Kindness' ...

'I can tell you how it happened. It's easy to say how it happened. He walked past a building, & a huge chunk of ice fell off the roof, & it hit him in the head. This is Chaplinesque, right? People start to laugh when I tell them-' As Jay Berman lingers in a coma, his young wife, Lainey, is the only one who believes he will recover. While he lies motionless, she hopes to reach him by offering reminders of the ordinary life they shared
- sweet-smelling flowers, his softly textured shirt, spices from their kitchen. & throughout her ordeal, Lainey is sustained by her relationship with two very special women, each of whom teaches her about the enduring bond of friendship & the genuine power of hope.
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As the Kingdom of Araluen prepares for war against Morgarath, Will & Horace accompany the Ranger Gilan on a mission to Celtica. But Celtica's villages are silent. Only an exhausted & starving girl called Evanlyn can tell them why: Morgarath has sent his foul creatures to enslave the Celts. While Gilan rides swiftly back to report this news to the King, Will, Horace & Evanlyn discover the true purpose behind Morgarath's actions. The Kingdom is sure to be defeated in a surprise three-sided attack
- unless they can find a way to prevent it.
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Will & Evanlyn are bound for Skandia as the captives of the fearsome Skandian wolfship captain, Erak. Halt has sworn to rescue Will, & he will do anything to keep his promise
- even defy his King.

Expelled from the Rangers, Halt is joined by Horace as he travels through Gallica towards Skandia. On their way they are constantly challenged by freelance knights
- otherwise known as thieving thugs. Horace knows a thing or two about combat, though, & he soon begins to attract the attention of knights & warlords for miles around with his uncanny skill. But will they be in time to rescue Will from a life of slavery?



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Will is small for his age, but fast & quick-witted. All his life, he has dreamed of becoming a great knight like the father he never knew, so he is devastated when he is rejected by Castle Redmont's Battleschool. Instead he is apprenticed to Halt, the mysterious Ranger whose uncanny ability to move unseen is thought to be the result of black magic. Reluctantly, Will learns to use a Ranger's secret weapons: a bow & arrow, a mottled cloak & a stubborn little pony. It may not be the sword & battlehorse he longs for, but when Will & Halt set out on a desperate mission to prevent the assassination of the King, Will finds that a Ranger's weapons are not so useless after all... ...

After years as a Ranger's Apprentice, Will is now the protector of his first fief. Not long into his service, everything that can go wrong, does: Keren, a renegade knight, has taken over Castle Macindaw, a strategic gateway to the North
- poisoning the royal family in the process
- & is holding Will's friend Alyss captive. The situation grows worse when Will uncovers Keren's secret alliance with the Scotti, who have plans to plunder Araluen. Time is of the essence, & Will must recruit a motley crew to rescue Alyss & reclaim Castle Macindaw, before the Scotti can make it their own.

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Five years have passed, & Will has finally become a Ranger, with his own fief to look after. He soon learns that even sleepy little island fiefs have problems enough to keep him on his toes.

Then he & his old friend Alyss are thrown into a terrifying new adventure, investigating the truth behind rumours of sorcery in a remote northern fief. As he stands in the forest, hearing eerie voices, with the horrific figure of the Night Warrior looming in the fog, Will must ask himself one question: is there a rational explanation... or does sorcery really exist?


This is the fifth book in the enthralling Ranger's Apprentice series.




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