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Henry's final battle has arrived in the third book of the bestselling 100 Cupboard series, about 100 cupboard doors leading to 100 worlds of adventure!
Hidden cupboards behind Henry's bedroom wall unlocked portals to other worlds that Henry and his cousin Henrietta couldn't resist exploring. But they made one terrible mistake— they released the undying witch Nimiane. Her goal? To drain all life from every world connected to the cupboards. Henry must seek out the Chestnut King to defeat her, but doing so comes at a price—one that will force Henry to make a terrible, irreversible choice. With the fate of the worlds and everyone Henry loves hanging in the balance, will he have the courage to do what is needed to destroy the witch once and for all?
Want to know where the cupboards came from? Don't miss the latest book in the series, The Door Before!
Praise for the 100 Cupboards series: "A must-read series!" —The Washington Post
"This is my favorite kind of fantasy." —Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Henry's final battle has arrived in the third book of the bestselling 100 Cupboard series, about 100 cupboard doors leading to 100 worlds of adventure!
Hidden cupboards behind Henry's bedroom wall unlocked portals to other worlds that Henry and his cousin Henrietta couldn't resist exploring. But they made one terrible mistake— they released the undying witch Nimiane. Her goal? To drain all life from every world connected to the cupboards. Henry must seek out the Chestnut King to defeat her, but doing so comes at a price—one that will force Henry to make a terrible, irreversible choice. With the fate of the worlds and everyone Henry loves hanging in the balance, will he have the courage to do what is needed to destroy the witch once and for all?
Want to know where the cupboards came from? Don't miss the latest book in the series, The Door Before!
Praise for the 100 Cupboards series: "A must-read series!" —The Washington Post
"This is my favorite kind of fantasy." —Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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Chapter One
Every year, Kansas watches the world die. Civilizations of wheat grow tall and green; they grow old and golden, and then men shaped from the same earth as the crop cut those lives down. And when the grain is threshed, and the dances and festivals have come and gone, then the fields are given over to fire, and the wheat stubble ascends into the Kansas sky, and the moon swells to bursting above a blackened earth.
The fields around Henry, Kansas, had given up their gold and were charred. Some had already been tilled under, waiting for the promised life of new seed. Waiting for winter, and for spring, and another black death.
The harvest had been good. Men and women, boys and girls had found work, and Henry Days had been all hot dogs and laughter, even without Frank Willis’s old brown truck in the parade.
The truck was over on the edge of town, by a lonely barn decorated with new No Trespassing signs and a hole in the ground where the Willis house had been in the spring and the early summer. Late summer had now faded into fall, and the pale blue farmhouse was gone. Kansas would never forget it.
Dry grass rustled against the barn doors and stretched up the sides of the mud-colored truck. Behind the barn, in the tall rattling grass, Henry York was crouching beside the irrigation ditch. Sweat eased down his forehead from beneath the bill of his baseball hat. A long piece of grass dangled between his teeth, and a worn glove hung on his right hand.
The field across the ditch was as black as any parking lot, and the sky above him held only the smoky haze that had so recently been wheat and the late-afternoon sun, proud to have baked the world.
Henry slapped a fist into his glove, shifted in his crouch, and flashed two fingers down between his legs.
“Again?” Zeke Johnson asked.
Henry smiled and nodded. It was his favorite pitch to catch. He watched the tall boy wind up, arms tight, leg high, and then Zeke uncoiled, striding forward, arm extending, and the ball—string wrapped tight around a rubber core, all stitched up in leather—came spinning toward him.
Zeke was throwing hard, and Henry, crouched with his left arm behind him and his right arm stretched out, tracing the ball, had no mask, no shin guards, no chest protector, no catcher’s mitt. He didn’t care. He didn’t even notice.
People who had known Henry in Boston would have had trouble recognizing him, even though his looks hadn’t changed that drastically. To Kansas, he was the same boy who’d once been plucked crying out of an attic cupboard by an old man, who had returned twelve years later, fragile and afraid. But to Kansas, a tadpole is the same thing as a frog. Henry was a little taller, his shoulders were a little wider, and his jaw was scarred, but it was the boy inside the body that had really changed. And his eyes. His eyes would go the color of midnight when they really wanted to see. When he let them. When he couldn’t stop them.
They were black now, following Zeke’s curve ball as it carved through the air. To Henry’s eyes, strings of force trailed the ball, connecting with Zeke’s hand and fingers, straggling into his shoulder and back and hips. The air bent around the spinning ball, and pushed. In an instant, the ball shifted, as Henry knew it would. High and inside on any right-handed batter, it broke down and across the imaginary plate. With a snap, it stopped in the old leather web of Henry’s glove. The forces, the threads, the crackling trails all tattered and faded, sliced and destroyed by the grass, swallowed by the world.
Henry...
About the Author-
N. D. Wilson spent nearly a year living in his grandparents' attic. If there were cupboards in those walls, he never found them. He and his wife live in Idaho, along with their four young explorers. For more information, please visit www.ndwilson.com.
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For readers of the 100 Cupboards trilogy, THE CHESTNUT KING is a compelling and satisfying end to the story. After discovering 99 doors to distant worlds in his bedroom, Henry York has unintentionally awoken an ancient evil in the form of the witch Nimiane. Russell Horton narrates in a voice that is equal parts gentle and menacing as the story travels through multiple worlds towards Henry's confrontation with the Chestnut King, who, for a price, may offer some help defeating Nimiane. Horton's deliberate pauses and inflections add suspense to this epic fantasy as Henry, his family, and his friends fight to save themselves and preserve the worlds they have grown to love. E.A.B. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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For readers of the 100 Cupboards trilogy, THE CHESTNUT KING is a compelling and satisfying end to the story. After discovering 99 doors to distant worlds in his bedroom, Henry York has unintentionally awoken an ancient evil in the form of the witch Nimiane. Russell Horton narrates in a voice that is equal parts gentle and menacing as the story travels through multiple worlds towards Henry's confrontation with the Chestnut King, who, for a price, may offer some help defeating Nimiane. Horton's deliberate pauses and inflections add suspense to this epic fantasy as Henry, his family, and his friends fight to save themselves and preserve the worlds they have grown to love. E.A.B. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
