The Last of the High Kings - Couverture souple

JJ Liddy sometimes blames his unreliable temprament on the visit he made to Tir na nOg, the land of eternal youth, when he was fifteen years old. It's perhaps not surprising that his children have also turned out to be a little eccentric, especially eleven-year-old Jenny. She forgets to go to school, can't bear to wear shoes, and spends entire days roaming the mountainside.

It is up there that she meets the ghost. He is guarding a pile of rocks known as the beacon, and when some archaeologists arrive to excavate it, they run into the strangest kind of obstruction.

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But it is not people the ghost fears, and when the real enemy finally reveals itself, the future of the enire human race is threatened. Only Aengus Og and his fairy kin can help now.

But why should fairies bother themselves with human affairs?

"Hello," said Alice, trying her best to sound friendly.

"What are you doing up here?" "I'm talking to the ghost," said Jenny.

Jenny has been making some strange friends lately. She's been walking barefoot through the wilds, talking to a huge white goat that wanders the Irish countryside. She's been chatting with the ghost of a young boy that guards the stone beacon at the top of the mountain. Her father, J.J. Liddy, knows these beings are connected somehow to the forces that are gathering around his homeland, plotting to destroy mankind. But will he be able to unravel the puzzles in time? Will he be able to secure the future of the last of the high kings? And is J.J. guarding some dark secrets of his own?