One warrior to challenge the dead. The Abhorsen is this warrior, the legacy passed from generation to generation. When one Abhorsen falls, another must take their place, using the Free Magic art of Necromancy in cooperation with the magic that is the Charter to prevent the Dead from walking once in life.

Twilight is the daughter of the magician, The Abhorsen. Ever since the age of five she has lived outside of the Wall, outside of The Old Empire of Warhorse - far away from the uncontrolled power of Free Magic, away from the Dead who walk again in life.

But now her father is missing and Twilight is called upon to cross from the comfortable world of Equestria back into the world that she was born into so that she may find him. Leaving the safety of the school she has known as home, Twilight must embark upon a quest fraught with supernatural dangers, with companions she is not certain of. After all, nothing is as it seems in the Empire.

For there she must confront an evil that threatens much more than her life and that of her father. Armed with the sword of the Abhorsen and the Seven Necromantic bells, she will come face to face with her hidden destiny...

Based off of the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix... because Garth Nix is awesome.