The Sacrifice Box
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And finally, to my mum and dad, Ellice and Chris. Thank you for everything you’ve given me, without which none of this would have even seemed possible. I love you both.
Fifteen-year-old Wulliam is dreading taking up his family’s mantle of Riverkeep, tending the river and fishing corpses from its treacherous waters.
But then everything changes.
One night his father is possessed by a dark spirit, and Wull hears that a cure lurks deep within the great sea-beast known as the mormoarch. He realizes he must go on an epic journey downriver to find it – or lose Pappa forever.
‘Startlingly original … It would be an extraordinary book by any author – but this is Martin Stewart’s first’ Spectator
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