The Witch of Glenaster (The Lanark Chronicles) (Volume 1)

When a young guardsman appears at their door late one night, Esther Lanark and her family are thrown into a world of fear, war, and ancient, dark magic, a world where firedrakes ravage the land, strange shadowmen stalk the woods, and where a witch from the far north has awoken from her long sleep, to wreak her revenge on the old empire. It is a world that will lead Esther and her brother to make the dangerous journey to the northern lands, far beyond the cities of men, to confront the Witch of Glenaster.