Eleven-year-old Jade is from a normal suburban background but longs to be different - and is terrified when she finds that she is. Her world is thrown into chaos when she discovers she is one of seven gifted children who are the result of a secret government experiment intended to find a cure for inherited diseases; an experiment that was hijacked by the sinister Dr Kobal for his own purposes. But are those purposes science or sorcery?

Kidnapped and transported suddenly from normality to a world of angels and demons, robotic beasts and hunters and hunted, Jade is plunged into a deadly battle to save the seven children's souls ...

This is book 1 in The Mysteries Of the Septagram .

This book has been graded for interest at 9-14 years.

There are 304 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Hodder & Stoughton General Division .

Paul Bryers is a highly acclaimed writer of adult fiction `The Used Woman`s Book Club, The Prayer of the Bone etc. ` and an award-winning television writer and director. These are his first children`s novels.