Candy and her friends, traveling from island to island throughout the world of Abarat, discover a secret conspiracy. Granny Rags is obsessed with becoming the Empress of the Isles. Her method is simple - she will eclipse all light, releasing living darkness. No moon, no sun, no stars - just absolute and eternal midnight... The book was not published in Russian. Network translation - Heretic (The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.