Warren Hately

The Wanderer and the Hill Warren Hately

Max always wanted a magic sword ... ... but when he accidentally stumbles into an ancient world one fine autumn morning, he soon has reason for second thoughts. The lands of The Vale resembles Anglo-Saxon Britain. Magic is real. Creatures sprung straight from tales like Beowulf walk the earth. Accidentally replacing the realm's mystic champion, 12-year-old Max teams up with a blacksmith, a hard-to-please dwarf, and an amnesiac woodland spirit and sets out to rid the Vale of a dreadful menace. But Max doesn't know his arrival has only made things easier for Gavin, a horrible boy from his own world who is the new, self-styled "King of the Trolls." Max is determined to set all wrongs right, but when he loses the magic sword Valesfang, the real adventure begins....