Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe how they had a remarkable adventure. They had opened the door of a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a quite different world from ours[. …] That had all happened a year ago, and now all four of them were sitting on a seat at a railway station with trunks and playboxes piled up round them. […]

Narnia has been at peace since Peter, Susan, Lucy and Edmund helped rid the kingdom of the evil White Witch. But the Sons of Adam and the Daughters of Eve have returned to their own world and a dark presence now rules this once harmonious land..

Wicked King Miraz has imposed a pernicious new order of persecution and imprisonment, but the King’s nephew and rightful heir, young Prince Caspian, realizing the evil of his uncle’s regime, vows to revive Narnia’s glorious past. Fearing for his life, he is forced to flee and calls on the four children, the magic of the mighty lion Aslan, and an army of fauns, dwarfs and woodland spirits to help him in his seemingly impossible task.

Book 2 in The Chronicles of Narnia series.