Merlin and the Dream Sleep (Paperback)

Paperback. Here's the KDP description for Merlin and the Dream Sleep, formatted and ready to paste: Some dreams refuse to end.And some prisons have no bars.Merlin is missing.Not wandering, not travelling, not off performing great magic in distant woods as he sometimes does. Missing - frozen in a suit of decorative armor in a forgotten corridor of a northern castle, sealed inside the dream-sleep by an enchantress whose patience and intelligence are matched only by her hatred of the wizard who helped shape the world she was born into.Inside the dream-sleep, Merlin doesn't know he's trapped. He sits by his brook in his clearing, thinks about Arthur, smokes his pipe, and receives visitors - a sprite with opinions about his beard, a mysterious Aelfish woman who arrives from the direction of the water with flowers, a king sleeping uneasily in a distant castle who needs counsel he won't remember receiving. The dream feels real because for Merlin it is the only reality he has.But the dream is fading. And so is he.While Merlin dreams, the world moves without him. Arthur faces the greatest political challenge of his reign as the lords of Britannia begin to question whether Camelot's king rules a kingdom or merely leads an alliance - a question someone has been very carefully arranging for them to ask. Five kings are meeting in rooms they won't talk about. A forged document is traveling through monastery networks. An argument is spreading through every court in Britannia that cannot be answered with force of arms or a well-drafted counter-document.Arthur needs an answer that can't be argued with. He needs it in six weeks. And his wizard is nowhere.Merlin and the Dream Sleep is the second serial in The Merlin Chronicles - a richly imagined retelling of Arthurian legend where the magic is ancient and costly, the politics are ruthless and human, and the wizard at the center of everything is considerably more complicated than the legend suggests.Serial Two ends on a cliffhanger. You have been warned. Again.From the author of Merlin and the Dragon Queen: "The Merlin Chronicles finds the darkness underneath the chivalry, the wit inside the legend, and the humanity in the inhuman." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…