The Oaken Throne (Deptford Histories, Book No. 2)

About this book

It is a time of magic and a time of darkness. The fierce wars between the bats and the squirrels have been raging for many years but tonight the battlefor power takes an extraordinary new twist. The Starwife leader of the black squirrels lies dyinf; before she can name her successor she is betrayed and poisoned by her trusted handmaiden. As the viscious bat army launches an devastating attck on the Starwifes realm the squirrel leader staggers to a window and calls for aid... In the different corners of the land Vesper the young bat and ysabelle the squirrel maiden are as yet unaware of the events that will sweep them ointo a nightmarish journey to save their kind from destruction....