Footsteps in the dusk. Pale hounds howling through the night. Hollow-eyed children pleading for his help.
And, most sinister of all, the return of an old friend, grown more powerful than ever.

Daniel's life is falling apart; then Cora, his beautiful step-sister, disappears. He'll give anything to get her back ... but will he have the courage to face his own demons?

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

There are 384 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Hodder & Stoughton General Division .

Patricia Elliott has written nine novels for children and young adults. Her first novel with Hodder, The Ice Boy , won the Fidler Award for a First Novel and was shortlisted for the Branford-Boase among other awards. Her second, Murkmere , was long-listed for the Guardian Fiction Award and she has since been short-listed for many others, including the Calderdale and the Wirral Paperback of the Year.