For Tom Ward, the Spook's apprentice, the pressure is now on. Having bound the Fiend's spirit temporarily he now has to come up with a permanent solution - and quickly. But the forces of the dark are now throwing everything they have at Tom, and with the Spook ailing he is having to face more and more alone . . . The tenth installment in the chilling Wardstone Chronicles. Warning: Joseph Delaney's Spook's tales are not to be read after dark . . .