Abarat: Absolute Midnight

Clive Barker, author of The Thief of Always, delivers an epic battle filled with fantasy and adventure that readers won’t want to put down!

Candy Quackenbush, her allies, and her enemies are back in Abarat: Absolute Midnight, the third book in Clive Barker’s New York Times bestselling YA fantasy series, Abarat.

"The waiting is over. Tomorrow there will be no dawn. Only midnight, absolute and eternal." Mater Motley, the Old Mother of Darkness herself—following the events of Abarat and Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War—has crafted a scheme of dark magic that may destroy the Abarat, a vast archipelago where every hour is an island in one eternal day.

In this thrilling coming of age story, when Candy discovers Mater Motley’s secret plot, she realizes that only she can bring an end to the destruction. Only she can stop the complete darkness threatening to abolish all hope and happiness from the Abarat.

But as Mater Motley’s power grows, can one girl from Minnesota truly save a world of magic?

• Epic World-Building: Journey across the Abarat, a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day, now threatened by an eternal night.
• An Unlikely Heroine: Candy Quackenbush from ordinary Chickentown, Minnesota, must embrace her destiny as the only one who can stand against the all-consuming darkness.
• Masterful Dark Fantasy: From the legendary mind of Clive Barker comes Mater Motley, a villain of terrifying power, and a quest filled with breathtaking imagination and peril.
• A War for the Ages: As armies of darkness gather and hope fades, Candy and her allies must face a war that will decide the fate of every sun, moon, and star in the heavens.