The Merlin Conspiracy

by Diana Wynne Jones

  www.dianawynnejones.com

  Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins authors and artists.

  CREDITS

  Cover art © 2003 by Cliff Nielsen

  Cover design by Karin Paprocki

  Cover © 2004 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

  COPYRIGHT

  Harper Trophy® is a registered trademark of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

  The Merlin Conspiracy

  Copyright © 2003 by Diana Wynne Jones

  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  * * *

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Jones, Diana Wynne.

  The Merlin Conspiracy / Diana Wynne Jones.

  p. cm.

  “Greenwillow Books.”

  Summary: Roddy and Nick, two teenagers with magical powers they are just learning to use, find that they must work together to save Roddy’s home world of Blest from destruction by power-hungry wizards.

  ISBN 0-06-052318-2 (trade)—ISBN 0-06-052319-0 (lib. bdg.)

  ISBN 0-06-052320-4 (pbk.)

  EPub Edition © AUGUST 2012 ISBN: 9780062244611

  [1. Magic—Fiction. 2. Self-perception—Fiction. 3. Fantasy.] I. Title.

  PZ7.J684 Me 2003

  2002072351

  [Fic]—dc21

  CIP

  AC

  * * *

  First American edition, 2003

  First Harper Trophy edition, 2004

  Visit us on the World Wide Web!

  www.harperchildrens.com

  ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

  Australia

  HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd.

  Level 13, 201 Elizabeth Street

  Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia

  http://www.harpercollins.com.au

  Canada

  HarperCollins Canada

  2 Bloor Street East - 20th Floor

  Toronto, ON, M4W, 1A8, Canada

  http://www.harpercollins.ca

  New Zealand

  HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) Limited

  P.O. Box 1

  Auckland, New Zealand

  http://www.harpercollins.co.nz

  United Kingdom

  HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

  77-85 Fulham Palace Road

  London, W6 8JB, UK

  http://www.harpercollins.co.uk

  United States

  HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

  10 East 53rd Street

  New York, NY 10022

  http://www.harpercollins.com