The children were disappearing.And the worst thing about it?No one noticedA rainmaker brings rain to a drought-stricken town. The stranger amazes the townspeople with magic mirrors and bewitches the children with his beautiful butterfly.First, one child vanishes. Then another. And another.Only one young man sees through the lies and decides to act.You'll love this dark, mysterious young adult...

A thrilling YA fantasy novel from award-winning author Arthur Slade!Carmen is a student at Red Assassin School. She's an expert at bladed weapons and poisons; and she's desperate to finish at the top of the class, ahead of her twin brother. The students have been trained to hunt using giant black swans, but Carmen has discovered a dragon. All she has to do is get on his back.One problem: he's killed everyone who gets near him.Then the Emperor declar...

The thrilling sequel to award-winning author Arthur Slade's fantasy adventure!Carmen has defeated her twin brother, Corwin, thanks to the pact she made with Brax the dragon. Now it's time for her to fulfill her end of the bargain.Brax takes Carmen to Drachia, the land of beasts, where Carmen soon learns that Brax had been banished from his father's kingdom for accidentally killing his sister, Brenna.But soon after their arrival in the dragon capital...

He's the greatest spy of the Victorian era, but he's facing his greatest challenge...Get the complete collection of the bestselling Mission Clockwork series. It's a steampunk-powered, action-packed adventure featuring brilliant heroes and bloody brilliant villains.Almost since birth, Modo has been rigorously schooled as a secret agent. His master, a British Lord, took advantage of Modo's unique shape-shifting talents, training him to morph from his unsightly...

Seventeen-year-old Michael goes to visit his eccentric mad-scientist uncle while he's busy working on yet another time-travel experiment.In the cluttered lab, Michael's uncle barely notices him. And he keeps muttering things like “quantum multiverse transporter," so Michael has to entertain himself. Which is how Michael accidentally ends up in an alternate universe. Everything looks remarkably similar to his own world but with a few key differences, like l...

Prince Conn will never be king. And that's just fine with him.Conn is ninth in line for the pirate throne and is quite happy to sail the skies in his airship with his crew of cheery misfits, plundering as they go. But one by one his siblings are being murdered, in tragic fires, violent cannon attacks or mysterious poisonings. Soon all fingers are pointing toward Conn as the mastermind. To prove his innocence, Conn must make his way to Skull Island, navigating his a...

A thrilling YA fantasy novel from award-winning author Arthur Slade!Carmen is a student at Red Assassin School. She's an expert at bladed weapons and poisons; and she's desperate to finish at the top of the class, ahead of her twin brother. The students have been trained to hunt using giant black swans, but Carmen has discovered a dragon. All she has to do is get on his back.One problem: he's killed everyone who gets near him.Then the Emperor declar...

The Emperor Sargon is at war. Can a dragon and an assassin stand in his way? Only with the help of a few friends.Carmen and Brax are searching for the Nameless one: a wizard who can bring people back from the dead. But he is not at all who or what they were expecting, and he has goals and plans of his own. Time is short because the emperor is at the gates of Avenus. The final battle will be epic.Includes the next two episodes in the Dragon Assassin series: ...

An ancient enemy rises from the seas....Brax and Carmen are exploring the ocean when they come across the dead body of a dragon on an island. He was an outcast, living far away from Drachia, and he was only recently killed. It turns out that the old enemy—one that the dragons believed were all destroyed—have returned. And they want revenge, one dead dragon at a time.The only way to defeat the mightiest of giants is to face him on his home turf. It is a land...

Contains books one and two of the Mission Clockwork series.Mission Clockwork, Book 1:He's the greatest spy of the Victorian era, but he's met his match.Almost since birth, Modo has been rigorously schooled as a secret agent. His master, a British Lord, took advantage of Modo's unique shape-shifting talents, training him to morph from his unsightly, hunchbacked-self into anyone he liked.When Modo is teamed up with th...

Can two kids stop a sinister plot to steal the brain power of the people of Nanaimo?Someone is delivering plates of scrumptious Nanaimo bars to every household in Nanaimo, and the people who eat them are behaving very strangely. Gordon Whillickers doesn’t get to eat his because, at the last minute, a hairy arm reaches through his window and steals them. He and Sophia chase after the thief and meet an amazing Sasquatch named Cheryl, who is also puzzled by t...

Crossing the Bitterwaters is dangerous. Fulfilling her oath is twice as deadly. Will Carmen survive? She has promised her dragon that she will assassinate a target for him. But he won't name the person or thing he wants her to kill. And he keeps taking her further and further into the deadly land of Drachia, where dragons rule. And, as if that's not enough, every single one of those dragons wants to kill Brax. Contains the next episodes in the Dragon Assassin series (Bitterwaters, _Elder M...