`It's a dangerous job, but someone has to do it.
' For years, the local Spook kept the county safe from evil.
But now his time has ended, and there is only one boy who can take over - Thomas Ward, barely more than a child himself.
Now he too must take on an apprentice, a girl called Jenny who is untested but willing to be trained in the dangerous life of a Spook.
When girls start dying in mysterious circumstances, they soon find themselves on the path of a terrifying and deadly beast.
Monstrous assassins are loose in the County, and far to the north, a new darkness is rising that threatens to engulf the whole world.
Do Tom and Jenny stand a chance against the might of the Kobalos? The first terrifying tale in the Starblade Chronicles, from the bestselling author of The Spook's Apprentice.
