Triumphant heroes and brilliantly wicked villains do pitched battle both morally and physically in this heart-stopping adventure story ...When the heir of Mistmantle is kidnapped, every corner of the island is searched. But then news starts spreading about sightings of the infamous Captain Husk, who everyone believed was dead.The inhabitants of Mistmantle begin to worry that these events are connected and that Husk's reign of evil is about to return. Can Urchin and his trusty friend Juniper recover Catkin before her life is in serious danger? And will they uncover the truth about Husk?

 

This book is part of a book series called The Mistmantle Chronicles .

There are 384 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

Margi McAllister lives in Hebdon Bridge, Yorkshire. Her first novel, A Friend for Rachel (now called Secret Mice), was published in 1997. Several more titles followed, and Margi then began to write full-time. This is her third book for Bloomsbury and she is also published by Oxford University Press and Lion Publishing.