Pursued by a power more terrifying than any magic they can summon, Garrick Hawken and his family flee to sombre Allamanda to find a way to recapture their beseiged home, Arcady. Their vast estates and magnificent house are being consumed by the Absences, voids where reality unravels, changes, consumes both the foolhardy and the brave. Pitched into a bitter quest into the Absences themselves, Garrick's success or failure will decide the fate of Arcady and the Hawkens once and for all.
- ISBN10 034068223X
- ISBN13 9780340682234
- Publish Date 12 August 1998 (first published 1 October 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 February 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 442
- Language English