Midnight: a mist-haunted wood with a bad reputation. A sweet sixteen party, and thirteen-year-old Nell is trying to keep her sister, spoilt birthday-girl Gwen, out of trouble. No chance. Trouble finds Gwen and drags her through the mist. Only Nell guesses who's behind the kidnap - the boy she hoped was her friend, the gorgeous but mysterious Evan River.

Evan is no ordinary boy - he has a secret which will lead Nell to question everything she has always learned from her grandmother's stories. Evan lives on the fringes of Nell's world, rarely glimpsed, misunderstood and feared, but a long-simmering showdown between the two worlds is looming ...

This book has been graded for interest at 12-17 years.

There are 336 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Hodder & Stoughton General Division .

Kathryn James has worked with gypsy and traveller children, driving around in a converted bus with a rainbow on the side, doing video and photography projects and documenting travelling lives. Her novel Mist won the New Horizons First Book Award, and it was shortlisted for the Peter's Booksellers Fiction Prize and the Lancashire Book of the Year Award. Kathryn lives in Leicester. Visit her website KathrynJames. co. uk or follow her on Twitter @Kathryn_James.