LYRA and her daemon are rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and admored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal—including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.
Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar. She is as fierce and true a champion as Roger and Asriel could want.
But what Lyra doesn’t know is that to help one of them, she’ll have to betray the other. . . .