Summary

Synopsis Amber Shadows and the Missing Wands ***** rating. When Amber Shadows searches the attic for information to finish a Magian school assignment, she finds two hidden journals filled with memoirs of her late, great, great grandmother, Lady Jocelyn. Amber is convinced after reading the memoirs that she is the chosen one to find her missing family and two priceless wands, regardless of the rumors about the Dark Magic Sorceress rising from the dead. Her belief is confirmed on the night she turns fourteen, when an apparition leads her to a third secret hidden in the eldest cypress tree in the Wood. Determined to find her family, Amber sets off on her own when her two best mates abandon her. Against their better judgment, they decide to join her. The deadly adventure begins in the Bewitched Forest where vampire bats and owlsnakes threaten their lives. They find their way out of the Wood and enter a cave leading to an under-ground castle. Facing the most horrifying beasts of the deadliest nature, they tread upon the grounds of Dark Magic, where life-threatening events unfold. Marianna and Jasper are captured along with the dwarves they met when first entering the cave, and Amber is about to be ripped to shreds by sea-serpents when the apparition who chose her to keep the Legends, Spells, and Enchantment Book, appears to her and reveals a prophecy from heaven only Amber can fulfill. Can Amber manage to protect her friends, family, and her own life while fulfilling the prophecy? br> ********************* June 4, 2008 Amber Shadows and the Missing Wands has won the Spinetinglers Book Of The Year Award! February 2009, Amber Shadows won its second BOTY Award in the Young Adult genre through AuthorsandBooks.net! Congratulations to author/illustrator Wendy Willett!