The Summer Tree Author:Guy Gavriel Kay "The Summer Tree" is a book of exhilarating scope and intensity. The novel is the first book of a fantasy trilogy on the grand scale, a work within the rich tradition of stories like Lord of the Rings. — The Summer Tree focuses on five young people who are dramatically preceipitated out of their lives in this world into the midst of a ferrifying ... more »war in Fionavar, first of all the worlds.
Here, in a wolrd of which our own is but a shadow, the fallen god, Rakoth Maugrim, breaks free from his thousand-year prison beneath the mountain. Maugrim unleashes his wrath upon the High Kingdom of Brennin, where generations of kings have affirmed their bond to the powers of the earth and sky on the limbs of the Summer Tree.« less