Publisher's Synopsis
For hundreds of years the Regnier family has guarded the gateway that protects us from the Otherworld beyond. Now the Gatekeeper is dying, his power waning, and creatures of nightmare are beginning to break through. Worst of all, his son, eleven-year-old Jacques Regnier, the only one who can take on the mantle of Gatekeeper after him, has disappeared.
Meanwhile the sorcerer known as Il Maestro prepares to shatter the gate forever and release the forces of Entropy into the world. But Il Maestro has made a secret pact with other, darker forces, and when the gate goes down it will not be Chaos alone which is released. What comes through the gate will be Hell itself, forever...
While Giles, Cordelia, Xander, Willow and Joyce confront problems of their own, Buffy, Angel and Oz have one chance to find Jacques before it is too late. They must travel the ghost roads of limbo, where only those touched by the supernatural may go.
Buffy comes of age in a well-paced adult trilogy which mixes occult horror, mythology and magic with the series' trademark wit and style. Taking Buffy into realms of the imagination which it would be impossible to recreate on screen and filled with superbly realised villains to chill the blood, the Gatekeeper Trilogy is a triumph over evil which Buffy's legions of fans will relish.
