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Synopsis:
It has been fortold: In the hour of Britain’s greatest need, King Arthur will return to
rescue his people. In Portugal, the reprobate King Edward the Ninth has died by his
own hand. In England, a dark scenario conceived by the power-hungry Prime
Minister, Thomas Waring, is about to be realized: the total destruction of the British
monarchy in the twenty-first century. And in the Scottish Highlands, a mystical
emissary named Mr. Embries — better known as “Merlin” — informs a young
captain that he is next in line to occupy the throne. For James Arthur Stuart is not the
commoner he has always believed himself to be — he is Arthur, the legendary King
of Summer, reborn. But the road to England’s salvation is rocky and dangerous,
with powerful waiting to ambush: Waring and his ruthless political machine ... and
the agents of an ancient, far more potent evil. For Arthur is not the only one who has
returned from the mists of legend. And Merlin’s magic is not the only sorcery that
has survived the centuries.




AVALON,
The Return of King Arthur

By
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD
Copyright © 1999 by Stephen R. Lawhead



The Britons believe yet that Arthur is alive, and dwelleth in Avalun with the fairest of
all elves; and the Britons ever yet expect when Arthur shall return. Was never the
man born, of ever any lady chosen, that knoweth of the sooth, to say more of
Arthur. But whilom was a sage hight Merlin; he said with words — his sayings were
sooth — that an Arthur should yet come to help the English.
— LAYMON, BRUT (CA. 1190)

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by
the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again,
and he shall win the Holy Cross. I will not say: here in this world he changed his life.
And many men say that there is written upon his tomb this verse: HIC JACET
ARTHURUS, REX QUONDAM, REX FUTURUS (Here lies Arthur, king once and
king to be).
— MALORY, LE MORTE D’ARTHUR (CA. 1469)

The throne of Britain shall become an iniquity to the nation, and a reproach to the
people, ere Arthur returns. But, when Avallon shall rise again in Llyonesse, and the
Thamesis reverse its course, then also shall Arthur take up the kingship of his nation
once more.
— ANEIRIN, THE BLACK BOOK OF ANEIRIN (CA. 643)