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Dan Mackmain doesn't understand what's going on, but he knows he has to find out, and quickly. He starts making calls, hoping someone will have some answers.

Contemporary fantasy drawing on British folklore and myth.
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Cover art shows a lethal, pale-scaled serpent-dragon or wyrm lurking in woodland. It looks straight at you as its forked tongue flickers between open, sharp-toothed jaws. Book extract reads: Iris had sent me a number starting +353. No message. I took off my mask and leaned against the battered oak table I’d salvaged from the manor house’s cellars. I wondered about texting Conn and asking him to ring me, but I couldn’t tell if this was a mobile number or a landline. I decided to just call. If he didn’t pick up, I could leave a message. ‘Hello.’ Conn’s deep voice sounded wary and curious in that single word. I waited for him to ask how I’d got his number. He didn’t. ‘Do you have a minute to talk?’ ‘A minute’s all you’ll need?’ He sounded sceptical. ‘Probably not.’ Maybe this was a bad idea. I realised I had no clue what Conn did for a day job. Whatever it was, he drove a Mercedes. Assuming that had been his car I’d seen in Wales. Conn laughed, though he didn’t sound particularly friendly. ‘I can spare you ten minutes.’ I talked fast. For the second time that morning, I explained what had happened at the craft fair

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