For fans of Nancy Farmer and Lloyd Alexander comes international bestselling author Michelle Paver’s second novel in the Bronze Age adventure series. While searching for his kidnapped sister, Outsider Hylas takes a dangerous detour when he’s captured as a slave and sent to the copper mines of Thalakrea. Hylas faces brutal overseers and lethal cave-ins while evading his enemies, the Crows. With the aid of an orphaned lion cub and his friend Pirra, Hylas must escape the mines and shatter the power of the Crows for good. But the prophecy is still at work and Hylas cannot escape its grasp, especially when the anger of the oldest god is awakened.

Johnny “TC” Beggs, famous and heroic star pilot, is a washed-up figure whose only work is in offering to illegally ferry passengers to the new world Ancia. The passengers are keen to start a new life and maybe strike it rich, and are prepared to take a chance and ignore the danger signs.The is year 2108, and the paradise world Ancia is found but only a lucky few can get there. Washed-up pilot Johnny ‘TC’ Beggs offers secret passage, for a hefty price. Once he was a hero, a man of space, but when he played by his own rules he ended up on the scrap heap. His daughter Dawn wants him to stay on Earth, but his son Jupe thinks he should go and not come back. His passengers are Rolondo and Rebbi Rees, who want to start a new life, but are already at each other’s throats. Real Munro has plans to create a new nation, but his girlfriend doesn’t want to go with him. Morgan Calp sees big business opportunity, and is prepared to risk losing his trophy wife and three young children to get there. What they don’t expect is a shadowy crew, rumours of unsavoury financiers, a secret travelling companion, and exactly what this new world Ancia is.This twisting and turning novel asks what happens when ordinary men and women are placed in trying and terrifying circumstances.

When Evelyn Dasher crossed paths with Luc, she was thrown headfirst into the world of the Lux—only to discover that she was already far more involved in their world than she ever suspected. Because the Luxen aren't the only ones with a hidden past. There's a gap in Evie's memory, lost months of her life and a lingering sense that something happened, something she can't remember and nobody is willing to tell her. She needs to find out the truth about who she is—and who she was. But every answer she finds only brings up more questions. Her search for the truth brings her ever closer to Luc, the Origin at the center of it all. He's powerful, arrogant, inhumanly beautiful, extremely dangerous...and possibly in love with her. But even as Evie falls for him, she can't help but wonder if his attraction is to her, or to the memory of a girl who no longer exists. And all the while, a new threat looms: reports of a flu-like, fatal virus that the...