Knights of the Shadow Wood

What if your life is not a random series of events, but a carefully orchestrated plan What if the nightmares that torment you in your sleep are not dreams at all, but memories of a previous life And what if all you know about yourself is nothing more than an inconsequential prelude to your resurrection in a distant world Now, imagine that you are 10 years old. Carter, together with the wizard Qazar and the mostly toothful knight Winnery, is about to find out that there's more to life than video games. Thrust across time and space into a medieval world forged through iron and blood, the young boy must rally a forsaken people to take back what is rightfully theirs or die at the hands of the sorcerer Zel and his depraved Stalker legion. And along the way, Qazar must lead the boy on a quest -- to learn the meaning of the Five Virtues and the centrality of their teachings. In the dark shadows of a dangerous world filled with goblins, dragons, and fairies, war is at hand, a war wrought by a child.