Spook's A New Darkness

<p><b>‘It’s a dangerous job, but someone has to do it.’</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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?<br><br><b>The first terrifying tale in the Starblade Chronicles, from the bestselling author of <i>The</i> <i>Spook’s Apprentice</i></b></p>