Conville & Walsh

Alone and on the run from Social Services, 14-year-old Berry has nowhere to go. Until she meets an old man who entrusts her with a package containing a mysterious item that has unbelievable powers. It is a meeting that will change her life, for other people also want the item and will stop at nothing to get it. Pursued by the FBI and a vicious terrorist group, Berry hides out at the Glastonbury music festival, where she meets fellow outcast, Elliott. Escaping over the Atlantic, they soon find themselves dodging bullets in a desperate race across America. But what is in the package? And why is it so important?

Hunted through cities and deserts, Berry knows that she must stay alive long enough to find the item’s rightful owner – whoever, or whatever, they may be.

In his third book for Faber, Steve Voake departs from the highly successful Aurobon setting of THE DREAMWALKER’S CHILD and its sequel, THE WEB OF FIRE, to pen this fast-paced stand-alone young adult thriller. The two teenagers at its core share the ultimate road trip – with Berry saddling up a Harley Davidson as soon as the pair hit US soil – and must use all their resourcefulness and inner strength to complete the mysterious task entrusted to them. With the deftness that made his first two novels so memorable, Voake balances a high-octane plot with a sensitive meditation on friendship, belonging and finding one’s place in the world.