“It’s a lion, I know it’s a lion. I’m done.... I wonder will it hurt much.... O-o-oh! Here it comes!”

Alone and afraid, young Shasta imagines the worst ... phantoms in the tombs, lions at every turn ... what terror awaits him next? Considering all he has been through so far, anything could happen.

First, there had been the remarkable news that he was not the son of the cruel fisherman, but had drifted ashore on a boat containing the body of a strange foreigner. Then there was his encounter with not one but two talking horses and a runaway princess. And the mad chase through the night by a lion. And who could explain the case of mistaken identity when visiting kings and queens from Narnia believe he is one of their own?

Certainly, something strange and mysterious is at work in Shasta's life. But what? And will it help Shasta and his companions cross the burning deserts and forsaken mountains to reach Narnia before the treacherous Prince Rabadash attacks with his army?

An enthralling audio drama, The Horse and His Boy mirrors the deep need that every heart feels: to belong ... to come home.

The Horse and His Boy was one of many stories C. S. Lewis had toyed with while writing the The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. After finishing those three stories, he thought he had written as much as he could about the land of Narnia. But Narnia wouldn't leave him alone, and within a few months of finishing The Voyage of the Dawn Treader he'd completed The Horse and His Boy. Though it was originally written fifth in the Chronicles of Narnia sequence, it takes place during the period mentioned at the end of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Therefore, Lewis recommended it be read third.

Again and again, Lewis explored themes of unbelonging in this world, because he believed we were made for another world. To paraphrase Lewis: We long for something more than we get in this life because we are heirs to something greater. Which is why it's no surprise that Calormen lacks the "magic" of Narnia. There, Shasta and the others experience the raw and very harsh edge of life without the "magic" of a transcendent hope. There, a Great Force works under cover of night to guide our friends to their final destination. And it is only when they reach the "North" that they find their heart's true home. They have gone from unbelief to belief. And then the magic truly begins.