Four years after saving the mysterious land of Lumenaria from certain anarchy, Joshua Cooper has settled into college life back in England, now at Cambridge University. But persistent girlfriends and good grades become the least of his worries when a mysterious stranger from the province of Ostengard-an isolated archipelago a thousand miles north of Lumenaria-appears one evening with dark news. The faraway world is losing Essence and faces certain doom unless something is done to solve the problem. Josh is easily convinced to return and lend whatever aid he can, but not all is as it seems. Treacherous plots are discovered, Arya Tremayne is missing, and rumors of a growing evil are whispered among the leaders of the provinces. Before long, Josh finds himself engulfed in a conflict that could destroy the planet and must travel across the continent with his friends-new and old-to uncover the mysteries of the planetary depletion and Arya's disappearance. At 102,000 words, The Polaris Attunement is the exciting second chapter in The Archon's Legacy series and follows Joshua Cooper's race against time to save the world-and Arya-from a fate worse than death.