Fast-paced middle grade thriller with magic and environmentalism at its heart.
It's a year since Nissa Marshall, then 12 years old, was found alive after miraculously surviving a month lost in the vast, dense, isolated bush of Fiordland.
Strange, magical things happened when Nissa was lost in the wilds but she must keep those secrets to herself.
Were the sparks actually real? Or had she made it all up in the forest inside her head? Because nothing has happened since. Life has just gone on.
But when one of the sparks mysteriously calls her back she discovers something very wrong. Developers are planning to put a road and a tunnel through the pristine wilderness, threatening the sparks that saved Nissa and who have lived there for thousands of years.
She must return and do what she can to save them.
This sequel to Spark Hunter is a tense, exciting adventure set in the real world, with flashes of magic realism.
