Lyra is now studying at St Sophia's College, Oxford, with her daemon Pantalaimon.<br/><br/>But, for the first time there are serious divisions between the two.<br/>Lyra is questioning everything she once held dear. Pan misses the impulsiveness of their youth.<br/><br/>When an act of terrible violence breaks the peace of the Oxford night, Lyra and Pan's relationship reaches a crisis and they are drawn, far from home, into the dangerous factions of a world they had no idea existed.