Bøker av Darby Karchut

"Readers won't find a dull moment in this modern-day, heroic adventure." -M.G. Velasco, CardslingerFor four hundred years, generations of the Family Del Toro and their battle-savvy warhorses have secretly guarded their corner of rural Colorado from all things monster. Now, thanks to a really bad move on twelve-year-old Matt Del Toro's part, the family can add vengeful witch to their list of Creatures That Want to Kill Us.When an opportunity arises for Matt to retrace his father's long-ago journey through the mountains along the legendary route known as The Hunter's Way, he is the first to saddle up. After all, there's nothing like an adventure in the wilderness to take his mind off his wicked witchy problems.That's when the wild in wilderness comes out swinging. With every mile, Matt and his family battle unexpected rock slides, impossible ascents, death-by-lightning storms, and worst of all: a clan of human-hating mountain gnomes known as tommyknockers. With the knockers determined to make the Del Toros food for worms-literally-the journey becomes a race from danger into more danger. Aided by the war stallion Rigo, Matt must use all his training, resources, and a twist o' Irish luck to save himself and his family.Mace and Hammer is book 3 in the Colorado Book Award-winning Del Toro Moon series.

Just when Finn MacCullen thought fate couldn't kick him any harder after the events of the Festival of the Hunt, it does. Now, he must overcome a series of nearly impossible trials to prove his worth as an apprentice, or lose his place at his master Gideon's side.But Finn and Gideon, and their friends, are determined to boot fate right back. They're going to do whatever it takes to succeed, including teaming up with a sorceress and a certain teen angel. However, Finn's life has as many twists as a Celtic knot, and master and apprentice find themselves in their ancestral homeland of Ireland with only their wits-and a fair bit of the Black Hand's charm-to protect them from the vengeful Celtic goddess known as the Scathach.In this heart-stopping finale of the award-winning series, it's going to take every scrap of Finn's Irish luck and pluck to save himself, and his master, from death. Or worse.

Autumn: the season of endings. And beginnings.Especially for one young apprentice.At the annual Festival of the Hunt, thirteen-year-old apprentice goblin hunter Finn MacCullen and his master, Gideon Lir, join other Tuatha De Danaan to honor their people's heritage. But Finn soon realizes that there are some who denounce his right to attend due to his half-human bloodline.While he struggles to keep his place by his master's side, he finds himself embroiled in a decades-old grudge between Gideon and another Knight, bewildered (and beguiled) by a female apprentice with a temper as explosive as his own, and battling a pack of goblins determined to wipe out the entire camp in a surprise attack.It's going to take some fancy knife work, the help of a female Knight with a lethal bow, and one old pick up truck to defeat the goblins and prove to his people that his blood runs true-blue Tuatha De Danaan.