Prepare to be enchanted in this sequel to Katherine Roberts’ best-selling novel SPELLFALL. It is six months since the rebel Caster Lord Hawk kidnapped Natalie and was imprisoned inside the Thrallstone by his son Merlin. Now the soultrees of Earthaven are preparing for the Blossoming, when treemages will fertilize the flowers with unicorn dust to grow new spells. But Earthaven's magic is draining away through the gateways into the human world, where Lord Hawk has escaped and is reforming his spellclave. To restore their power, the Spell Lords summon Natalie to take her mother’s seat on the Council of Oq. They have chosen a powerful young treemage called Squirrel to join her, but he is not ready to sacrifice his familiar and flees into the human world, where he becomes Lord Hawk's prey. With the Blossoming fast approaching, Natalie and her friends once again find themselves fighting Hawk’s Casters in a desperate race to gain Power of Thirteen - only this time Natalie has learned how to cast spells and is determined to do things her way, no matter what the Spell Lords say... Praise for Book 1 Spellfall: "Fantasy adventure with shades of Tolkien and Pullman. Superb." The Bookseller. Katherine Roberts is an English author with a bit of Welsh and Spanish blood mixed in. She won the Branford Boase Award in 2000 for her debut novel SONG QUEST and has been writing her own blend of fantasy, legend and myth for young readers ever since. After gaining a first-class maths degree from Bath University she started out programming computers, then worked with racehorses for many years. She found her first publisher shortly after kissing the Blarney Stone on a cycling tour of Ireland... which is how she knows magic is real!