The Floating Castle — Craig Mills

Daventry has known peace for a long time. Until now...

A flying castle?

It can't be true--but it is. The most vicious storm in years rages through a dark night, and dawn finds sunlight shining on an ominous black castle where there was none the day before. The next few days see a banquet of evil like Daventry has never known: ghastly riders in black armor pillaging farms, horrid trolls and ogres laying waste to the countryside, menacing flashes of lightning hovering over the castle.

King Graham assembles his greatest knights in council to determine how to deal with this threat. As they bicker over a solution, a dark-robed mage bursts into the chamber, announcing himself as Telgrin, master of the castle and new king of Daventry. As a warning that he will tolerate no opposition, he steals Graham's soul, leaving his lifeless body slumped over in his throne.

Prince Alexander cannot sit still. His kingdom is wounded, his people are terrified, and his father is near death. Accompanied only by an apprentice wizard, he sets out to banish the evil that threatens all he holds dear. But to do so, he will have to journey to the very heart of evil itself...