Sarah Driver

Sea


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      To Mum, Dad and Nick, for sailing through the storms with me

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      First published in Great Britain 2017

      by Egmont UK Limited

      The Yellow Building, 1 Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN

      Text copyright © Sarah Driver, 2017

      Illustrations copyright © Joe McLaren, 2017

      Additional interior illustrations by Janene Spencer

      First e-book edition 2017

      ISBN 978 1 4052 8467 7

      Ebook ISBN 978 1 7803 1763 2

       www.egmont.co.uk

      A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library

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       CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Dedication and Copyright

       11 Whale-song

       12 Aches and Pains

       13 Storm

       14 Turning Tides

       15 The Unseeing Eye

       PART 2: Winter’s Prowl

       16 Dragonfly

       17 Dread’s Eve

       18 The Stone Circle

       19 The Merwraith

       20 Cut Adrift

       21 The Hunter

       22 Dungeon

       23 Endless Night

       24 Bad Blood

       25 Moonrise over the End of the World

       26 Hawk-courage

       27 True-Tribe

       PART 3: Flight

       28 Rattlebones

       29 Thunder Heart

       30 What the Sea Spat Out

       31 Crow

       32 Labyrinth

       33 Wreckers

       34 One Boss

       35 Crew

       36 Bony Isle Bound

       37 Devil’s Hag

       38 Hooked

       39 Blood-magyk

       40 Song of Sorrow

       41 Battle Scars

       42 Castle Whalesbane

       43 Dead Reckoning

       44 Storm-brewing

       45 Tentacles

       46 Free Flight

       Acknowledgements

       Back series promotional page

      The beasts are coming.

      I’m below decks in the gloomy kitchens, helping Pipistrelle salt raw reindeer steak, when the first call hacks through the air. As the sound fades, my fingers stop dead and cold chunks of salt dig into my skin. My bones turn to water but I won’t let my knees buckle. Pip stops his tuneless whistling and scowls. My heart barely thuds before the clanging of the alarm bell shatters the