The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world.
And Will Stanton -- last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to
keeping the world free -- must join forces with this ageless master
Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light.
Drawn in with them are the three Drew children, who are mortal, but have
their own vital part in the story. These six fight fear and death in the
darkly brooding Welsh hills, in a quest through time and space that
touches the most ancient myths of the British Isles, and that brings
Susan Cooper's masterful sequence of novels to a satysfying close.