susan

Caspian, the rightful king of Narnia, was facing his dark hour. Miraz, his ambitious and unscrupulous uncle, had usurped the throne, letting the kingdom plunge into tyranny and darkness. Caspian found himself leading a rebellion against his uncle, not by choice but by the compulsion of duty to his land and its people.

Standing there, shivering in the chilly wind, Will Stanton needed no one to tell him that danger was near. He was now the last of the Old Ones, protectors of the Light against the rising Dark. He had always known it would come to this. The prophecy in Susan Cooper's 'The Dark Is Rising' had promised so much more. 'When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn them back,' it had said. But now, it was only him.