Arthur: The Seeing StoneThe year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches, where young Arthur de Caldicot practises his tilting and archery, learns to be a dutiful page to his father, and waits impatiently to grow up and become a knight. One day his father's friend Merlin gives him a shining black stone. When Arthur starts to see stories in the stone, his life quickly becomes entwined with that of his namesake, the boy who pulls the sword from the stone. In this many layered

Lily has to begin picking her way through a confusing world of liars

No longer able to trust those who hired him (if ever he did)

She's very good at staying alive

home of the mysterious Nix

and a sardonic depiction of the capitulation of America to Japan in World War II

more complex picture of the months leading up to the shooting

you can't trust anything you see

she enjoys her new lease of life for ten days

into cataclysmic war and destruction

had seen it as her sacred mission to cleanse the priory

no matter what good he strives to do

In 1985 in a North Texas backwater