The Best Laid Plans
Book III of The Bookworm series
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Elaine and Johan are preparing to leave Golden City, with Daria and the travellers, in order to search for the Witch-King. The Grand Sorceress instructs Inquisitor Cass to help them. But before Elaine can leave she is arrested by two Inquisitors on the orders of the Emperor. When she resists she is hit with a powerful spell that forces her to concentrate all her efforts on protecting her mind from its intrusion. Taken to the palace she finds that the Grand Sorceress has been removed and the Throne has accepted an heir to the Empire. Realising this has to be the work of the Witch-King, Elaine must defeat the spell that is eating away at her defences if she is to escape and destroy him. Meanwhile, Johan, Daria and Cass are trying to find a way to get to Elaine and break her out of the cell in which she is being held.
The Golden City is still widely devastated from the disastrous battle for power that followed the death of the previous Grand Sorcerer. The recent escalating breakdown of social order can only be made worse by the return of an Emperor and the imposition of martial law. The Privy Councillors and Heads of the Great Houses succumb to the power of the new Emperor, as he amasses a huge army. It is up to Elaine and her friends, with some unexpected help, to prevent an all-out war.
The third instalment in the Bookworm series, which started with Bookworm and then Bookworm II: The Very Ugly Duckling, The Best Laid Plans follows on immediately from the events in The Very Ugly Duckling, with Elaine and Johan joined by other favourite characters as they try to track down the Witch-King. The fourth and final book in the series is Bookworm IV: Full Circle.
Library photograph: zens/shutterstock.com
Library photograph: zens/shutterstock.com
Library photograph: zens/shutterstock.com
skull: leonello calvetti/shutterstock.com
Bookworm III: The Best Laid Plans was published in a digital edition on 13th February 2015 and in paperback on 6th April 2015.
ISBN: 978-1-908168-76-4 eBook Typical price £2.99 / €3.49 / $3.99
ISBN: 978-1-908168-66-5 paperback 400pp List price £12 / €16 / $20
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The Bookworm series is available as unabridged audiobooks from Tantor Media Inc. narrated by Zehra Jane Naqvi. They are now available through major audiobook retailers.
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