About the Book
Mr. and Mrs. Rylie Rabet are not everyday rabbits. On the other hand, what is revealed in this tale is that no rabbit is what most of us take them to be. One day, about middle spring, Rylie tells Muffet that he has been hankering to see a little bit of the wider world, beyond the Green Meadow and the Babbling Brook. At first Muffet is wary, and telling him her fears of known and unknown threats. Making light of his own yearnings, he brushes the thought aside, talking of their favourite berries that should be very good that year. After a visit from Eldma Cottontail, who scolds Muffet, her elddaughter, telling her that she shouldn't deny her husband, Muffet changes her mind. She runs to catch up to him at Marty and Marcy's hutch, and after they have a very close talk, Rylie and Muffet decide to set off on what he calls an adventure. Very quickly they cross the Big River and wind up in the Great Forest where they meet a huge rabbit, also with the last name Rabet, i' sooth one Rylan Rabet, who turns out to be Rylie's granduncle. After helping them to grasp, at least at bottom, who he is, he takes them to his tree castle, Haremore, and tells them that they began their "adventure" because of a calling that they had felt in their hearts from earliest kithood. There, among many wundorweorcs, or miracles, they are ushered into, by Grandaunt Musset, Rylan's wysress wife, a sight of, indeed brief walk along the fringes of the enchanted realm. On a magikeal, or gealdored dream passance they encounter and begin to get to know Cærwyn, an aelf lord, and at a coming-out banquet meet all manner of gealdored folc, finding out that what they thought was their three-day stay was truly over thirty days, more than a month! The day after the banquet Granduncle Rylan sends them to the town of Wilmington, NC for a journey to Wales. Once at sea they find that their "adventure" was foredoomed from the first Age, by none other than Elesudor, or Arglwydd O' Olau. After meeting in person, and face to face, a human, an enkerly large human, also part aelf and droich, and the Captain of the craft, the H. M. S. Columbia, they come upon the workings of Serynbore, Prince of Deorcness, through his minion, Draygul. The schip is pierced with deorc wundorcræft, broken up and sunk. Along with Trevor Legrand, the captain, they are saved by Cærwyn, and his moraelfr kinswoman, Morweissa, queen of moraelfr. By the help of Albraeshe and Lorænell, two strapping moraelfr accompanying Morweissa, Rylie and Muffet, together with Trevor Legrand, are swiftly and joyfully borne to Bermuda. Cærwyn finds them another schip, the Glamourgyn. At sea again, the Glamourgyn is likewise attacked, by the same Draygul who destroyed the first. In the aftermath, all aboard schip, eardfolc and aeldere folc alike, sailors, aelfr, sprites and morpixie, and the wundor that is Trevor Aubrey Legrand, have the scales swept off their eyes, and see what Elesudor had first moulded them to be. Morweissa and Cærwyn feel proud that their charges finally understand who and what they are, and are all set to find an meet kinman Thurborn in Wales, who will guide them further in their gealdored odyssey. Much like the combined allegories in Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia, Rylie Rabet will challenge your imagination, and your thinking about why we are on the earth, all in a thrilling tale of mystery and wundor.