The Black Elfstone (The Fall of Shannara)

The Black Elfstone (The Fall of Shannara) by Brooks, Terry. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781432841096.

The first book of the triumphant and epic four-part conclusion to the Shannara series, from one of the all-time masters of fantasy. Through forty years of New York Times bestselling Shannara novels, Terry Brooks always had an ending in mind: a series that would bring it all to a grand conclusion. Now that time is here. The Four Lands has been at peace for generations, but now a mysterious army of invaders is cutting a bloody swath across a remote region of the land. No one knows who they are, where they come from, or what they are after--and most seem content to ignore these disturbing events. The only people who sense a greater, growing threat and wish to uncover the truth are societys outcasts: an exiled High Druid, a conflicted warrior, a teenage girl struggling to master a prodigious magic... and a scrappy young orphan, improbably named Shea Ohmsford.