Sister Of The South

The story so far …

Lief, Barda and Jasmine are on a quest to find and destroy the Four Sisters, evil Shadow Lord creations which have been poisoning Deltora for centuries. They learned of the Four Sisters plot through the Enemy’s crystal, left in the palace in Del after the Belt of Deltora was restored and the Shadow Lord’s tyranny over Deltora ended.

To succeed in his quest, Lief must wake Deltora’s last dragons from their enchanted sleep, for only when the power of a dragon joins the power of a gem in the magic Belt of Deltora can a Sister be destroyed.

Centuries ago, Deltora’s dragons, fierce protectors of their land, were hunted almost to extinction by the Enemy’s seven Ak-Baba. When only one dragon from each gem territory remained, the explorer Doran the Dragonlover persuaded the beasts to sleep in safety until a king, wearing the Belt of Deltora, called them to wake.

Too late, Doran learned of the Shadow Lord’s plan to use the Four Sisters to starve Deltora’s people. Now that the dragons had gone, there was nothing to stop the Enemy from putting the Sisters into place. Doran tried to warn of the danger, but was not believed. Leaving a map showing where he thought the Sisters were, he set out to find proof. But the Enemy wreaked a hideous revenge upon him on the Isle of the Dead, and his map was torn into four parts, and hidden.

Despite terrible dangers, Lief, Barda and Jasmine have managed to find all the fragments of Doran’s map, and to destroy the Sisters of the East, North and West. They have also found Red Han, the lost keeper of the magic Bone Point lighthouse, raising hopes that trading ships loaded with badly-needed food may now sail to Deltora across the western seas.

But the companions cannot rest. To their amazement and horror, the final map fragment has shown that the last Sister, the Sister of the South, is in their home city of Del. This is very bad news. Jasmine’s father, the legendary Resistance leader, Doom, is already struggling to prevent Del’s starving people from sinking into despair. Lief’s mother, Sharn, who might bring the people comfort, is still in Tora, Del’s magic sister city in the west. Messages from Josef, the old palace librarian, are increasingly confused and frantic. And wherever they are, whatever they do, it seems the Shadow Lord’s eyes are upon them.

Now read on …