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THE COMPANIONS QUARTET IS COMPLETE!

The Chimera's Curse

Book Four of the Companions Quartet

‘How shall we kill the Universal?’ asked the serpent, its tongue flickering between its teeth. ‘Bite, burn or venom?’

Connie is a the world's last Universal – the only person who can communicate with all creatures. The only person who can keep peace between humans and the hidden mythical beings that are being destroyed by pollution.

But the shapeshifer Kullervo craves her power. He wants to wipe out humanity.

During a long, hot summer, as the sun beats down and the earth gets dryer, Kullervo prepares for war. The serpent-like chimera is just one part of his frightening army. As the inferno blazes into life, Connie and her best friend Col must stop him. But how? And who will survive this battle to the death?

'The Chimera's Curse' is available in hardback in all good bookshops now.

Other titles in the Companions Quartet:

Mines of the Minotaur

Book Three of the Companions Quartet

‘Something’s wrong,’ Col said urgently. The wind was buffeting him back, trying to prevent him reaching his friend. ‘Connie!’ he yelled. ‘Connie! Stop it!’ She was standing very close to the cliff edge, her toes curled over the crumbling lip . . .

Connie is a Universal – she can talk to animals and mythical creatures. But something dark is calling to her, giving her dangerous power, and her best friend Col doesn’t know what to do.

When her strange behaviour means Connie is rejected by the Society for the Protection of Mythical Creatures - the very group of people who are supposed to protect her - she hides away in an abandoned tin mine. There she is befriended by a blinded Minotaur, and feels safe amongst the other wounded creatures the Society and the world have forgotten.

But even deep underground she can’t block out the dark voice inside her head. Who is it, and where does it come from? And why does Connie feel so terrified by the power it gives her?

'Mines of the Minotaur' is available in all good bookshops now.

The Gorgon’s Gaze

Book Two of the Companions Quartet

‘The dark eyes of the gorgon blazed at Connie, beating down upon her with awesome power. Connie felt a burning coldness scorching her skin, entering her flesh and freezing her to the spot. Now the gorgon would begin the slow process of killing her, turning her pounding heart to stone…’

Mallins Wood is under threat, and with it the home of the last remaining gorgon-a mythical creature that can kill with a look. Only a handful of people know that she still exists. Col and his mother are among them, and both are determined to save her, and the forest.

While Col tries to rally support amongst the locals, his mum is hatching a more deadly plan. Egged on by the evil shapeshifter Kullervo, she is ready to sacrifice Col’s best friend, Connie, to protect the gorgon. But first she needs Col to lure Connie to the gorgon’s lair…

'The Gorgon's Gaze' is available in all good bookshops now.

Secret of the Sirens

Book One of the Companions Quartet

‘Col felt a stab of fear in his stomach. The Sirens were now close enough for him to see their crimson mouths open in a scream, pale faces blazing with white-hot anger, their bird-claws tearing at the air…’

When Connie is sent to live with her aunt by the sea, she’s not expecting anything much-not to make friends with Col, the coolest boy in town, and certainly not to discover that mythical creatures still exist, that an ancient society has protected them for centuries and that a dark and powerful force is now trying to destroy it.

Above all, she doesn’t expect to discover that she has a special talent­­-greater even than her secret ability to talk to animals-which with Col’s help, could give her unimaginable power…

'Secret of the Sirens' is available in all good bookshops now.