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Mortlock:
A
wonderfully exciting, dark, and gruesomely gothic middle-grade chiller, set in
Victorian London. Perfect and pacy entertainment for both girls and boys of
8+.
For orphan Josie, life is good with Cardamom, the great magician who
took her in as a baby and with whom she now performs her astounding
knife-throwing act. But then three mysterious ‘aunts’ turn up - taking over
the house and transforming into vicious, giant crows, in thrall to evil Lord
Corvis. With his dying breath, Cardamon tells Josie to ‘seek the Amarant - and
Mortlock’. So begins a terrifying quest for Josie and her newly
discovered twin, Alfie, the undertaker’s mute, who soon realize that the
legendary Amarant is a plant with power over life and death, which Cardamon,
Corvis and Mortlock first discovered many years ago in Abyssinia.
But
Cardamon had another secret. Mortlock was buried alive - with the Amarant - and
now only the final destruction of the plant can quench Corvis’s growing powers
and evil plans. Braving a circus of the living dead, and a terrifying
encounter with the Amarant in a graveyard where Mortlock certainly does not
‘rest in peace’, Josie and Alfie will need all their courage and skills to
save themselves and the world.
Rights:
Greenhouse c/o Rights People
UK/Commonwealth/Europe:
Bloomsbury Children’s UK (Fall 2010)
For all other rights contact:
info@rightspeople.com
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