Cait Weerd has no idea the undain are hunting her. She doesn’t know the vile creatures need her blood to survive. She doesn’t even know she’s a witch, descended from a long line of witches. Cait Weerd doesn’t know much, but all that’s about to change.
At Manchester Central Library, she’s caught in the crossfire between the witches and the undain, two worlds fighting for an old book. Cait takes the book and is told to run, hide the book or destroy it. The undain’s secrets are buried in its pages, and they want it almost as much as they want her.
The fate of two worlds is at stake. Cait has to decide what to do: run, fight, or hope it all goes away.
But then she learns who she really is, along with the terrible truth of what the undain have been doing in our world all this time...
For fans of Tokien or Donaldson: fantasy and magic, and a battle against terrible evil that starts in a mysterious other world and spills over into our own.
“This is a thoroughly enjoyable read … Dialogue is excellent, the pace is great, you want to keep reading. I do like the way he takes an ancient creature into modern England and sets it free to revel in modern technology. He does this creature very well. If you like this type of YA Fantasy with witchcraft, you will enjoy it.” – British Fantasy Society
“I loved it. Pulled me into the world and wouldn’t let me go … a wonderful read.”
“A wonderful story combining the world of today with magic and fantasy”
“I was on the edge of my seat from beginning to end”
Simon is a fantasy and sci/fi writer, the author of over 100 published short stories, quite a lot of poetry and the novels The Genehunter, Engn and the Cloven Land fantasy trilogy.
His short stories have appeared in Analog, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, British Fantasy Society Horizons, Abyss & Apex and many more.
He lives in the UK and is a member of the British Fantasy Society.