Merlin's Crystal: Complete Trilogy

For children from 12 to 112! Based in Cornwall in 1999/2001, Merlin's Crystal tells the story of Sylvie (12) and her brother Josh (13) who go to spend the school holidays with their aunt and uncle at their Manor House in Cornwall. They take along their best friend Tom (14). The Manor House is called Manor Parsley and there are strange goings on right from the start. A portrait changes, a tunnel, a cave, mysterious keys, a secret passage, unexplained noises and happenings and a jewel encrusted book that nobody can read. The Beast of the Moor is sighted and it's looking for someone special to take charge of the Crystal it protects. What are the secrets of the Crystal, the house and its previous occupants; the disabled boy and his spiteful sister? At the total eclipse, four people stand like statues on the beach, each blessed by the wishes of the Crystal... and a special child is born exactly nine months later during a Grand Planetary Alignment, on the darkest night in living memory....