In this third volume of 'The Winterne Series' as the end of year Prom approaches, Sam discovers Jenny's keeping secrets and an exotic visitor arrives putting an old friend in danger. Elven family history, a threat to a queen and a missing elf become entangled in this tale of greed and retribution. Above ground there's danger. Below, there's a wedding, conflict and betrayal. And all before summer begins

'Jae has a fluid and easily accessible writing style, while the stories feature richly layered plots where high fantasy, school-year tribulations and dark nefarious deeds interweave. In...

Christmas is approaching and for 14 year old Sam Johnson it promises to be the best ever. The prettiest girl in school agrees to go to the Christmas Ball with him and his father is coming home from South Africa. But it all goes awry when Fate steps in and turns his world upside down. Spending Christmas with little known relatives int he heart of Somerset is not exactly his ideas of a good time. But phantom lights in the nearby forest and his new uncle's secretive moonlit walks are mysterious enough but, when he hears what sounds like wolf howling in the night...

'Farrow'd sell 'is own granny for a fiver in them days an' I can't imagine 'e's improved any since. If you've got dealin's wiv 'im, then watch out fer yerself Mrs Atkins. Get shot of 'im, sharpish.'

Sam Johnson is happy in Winterne until someone's criminal plan puts the Atkins family in danger. There's a ghost who walks through walls and strangers are seen in the wood. This time Jonah, and Charlie's extraordinary friends, need Sam's help to catch a killer.