Winner of the Blue Peter Award 2020.

A mind-bending adventure from the author of Brightstorm!

A year after the death of her older brother, Prue Haywood’s

family is still shattered by grief. But everything

changes when a stranger arrives at the farm.

A new, incredible technology has been discovered in the city of

Medlock, where a secretive guild of inventors

have developed a way to capture spirits of the dead in animal-like

machines, bringing them back to life.

Prue knows that the Ghost Guild might hold the key to bringing

her brother back, so she seizes the stranger’s offer to join as

an apprentice. But to find her brother, she needs to find a way

to get the ghost machines to remember the people

they used to be.

Yet if Prue succeeds, all of society could come apart…

Hardy has a laser-like sense of what appeals to her readership

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