Lyra Is Rushing To The Cold, Far North, Where Witch Clans And Armored Bears Rule. North, Where The Gobblers Take The Children They Steal--Including Her Friend Roger. North, Where Her Fearsome Uncle Asriel Is Trying To Build A Bridge To A Parallel World. Can One Small Girl Make A Difference In Such Great And Terrible Endeavors? This Is Lyra: A Savage, A Schemer, A Liar, And As Fierce And True A Champion As Roger Or Asriel Could Want--But What Lyra Doesn'T Know Is That To Help One Of Them Will Be To Betray The Other.