A Treat for Halloween
Trick or treat?
If you're anything like me, you'd probably prefer a treat!
So, for this weekend only, you can read my Halloween fantasy thriller SPELLFALL on your Kindle for under £1 (or under $1 or under 1 euro, depending on where you live).
Find out who has set a trap for Natalie, and what haunts the woods, in this full-length novel for young readers first published by Chicken House/Scholastic US in 2001.
Spellfall UK
Spellfall US
Happy Halloween!
If you're anything like me, you'd probably prefer a treat!
So, for this weekend only, you can read my Halloween fantasy thriller SPELLFALL on your Kindle for under £1 (or under $1 or under 1 euro, depending on where you live).
Natalie saw the first spell in the
supermarket car park. It was floating in a puddle near the recycling bins,
glimmering bronze and green in the October drizzle. At first she thought it was
a leaf, though as she drew closer it began to look more like a crumpled sweet
wrapper – a very interesting sweet wrapper. Pick
me up, it seemed to say, glittering intriguingly. Surely I’m worth a closer look?
She shook her head and hurried past. She was wet and cold
and had more things to worry about than picking up someone else’s litter. But
the trap had been baited by one who knew a lot more about spells than she did.
Before she knew what she was doing, she’d put down her chinking carrier bags
and gone back for it. As her hand closed about the wrapper, a voice behind her
whispered, “Innocent enough to crawl
through the Thrallstone.”
Natalie pushed her glasses back up her nose and stared round
uneasily. Anyone close enough to have spoken was either hurrying to their car
with a loaded shopping trolley or still driving in circles like her stepmother
and stepbrother, looking for a space to park.
“Who’s there?” she said sharply.
Rain danced on the metal roofs of the bins.
No answer.
Skin prickling, Natalie stared across the river meadows at
the wooded slopes beyond. The car park was on the edge of town and the
recycling bins were in the corner furthest from the supermarket. This might
have seemed bad planning for an eco-friendly development like Millennium Green,
except the original plans showed a housing estate was to have been built on the
meadows. The official excuse was that the floods would cost too much to divert
but everyone at Natalie’s school knew the truth. People didn’t want to live in
the shadow of Unicorn Wood because it was haunted...
Spellfall UK
Spellfall US
Happy Halloween!