When Jess goes to stay with her aunt in the country, she feels that someone or something is watching her. Strange noises and movements come from within the forest and, on the farms, the livestock are being slaughtered by a savage creature. How is Luc, the boy she meets at her aunt's, involved?

 

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Oxford University Press .

Sue Welford is the author of many books for children, including THE GHOST IN THE MIRROR, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award, and THE NIGHT AFTER TOMORROW, which was the winner of the Angus Book Award. She has two children and lives in Kent with her two Jack Russell terriers.