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Archer Merry Owen, a one-eyed Welsh teenager, discovers an invaluable book that may be a missing part of the legendary Mabinogion. This discovery sparks a quest through the streams of time and back, in which Merry must use all her skills to defend her family's farm from another family's multigenerational greed. Davies interweaves past and present cultures, filling both with fully realized characters.