A child's slide is the gateway to another world, in this ecological crime thriller.
Who is killing the stars?
Book one takes us from Southern England, to California and Egypt, via outer space as Iris and her sidekick Alphard unravel the mystery.
Iris is the story of a troubled girl from a broken home with a passion for astronomy and a penchant for running away. Gavin Preebot, is a sadistic ex-con on a mission to find his way back to a place he cannot forget. When Iris is sent to live with her aunt and uncle in the sleepy town of Ryeford, she begins to experience a series of strange and inexplicable events – the neighbourhood cats are disappearing and stars are dying. And when she accidentally stumbles upon an unknown aerial world populated by cats, she soon discovers what has been happening. Iris learns the true nature of cats, whose eyes are the stars. Now only Iris can help to save the universe from the machinations of the scheming Preebot and from eternal darkness. From London, to Los Angeles and Cairo, this is a story on an epic scale.
Age: 9-11. Word count: 61,405