Storm. Sarah Driver

      

      To my readers, for a dazzle-bright debut year.

      Heart-thanks for crewing up with me and Mouse!

      May the sea-gods always swim close to you.

      First published in Great Britain 2018

      by Egmont UK Limited

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      Text copyright © Sarah Driver 2018

      Illustrations copyright © Ray Tierney 2018

      Map illustration copyright © Joe McLaren 2018

      Additional illustrations first published in 2017 in the titles The Huntress: Sea and

      The Huntress: Sky written by Sarah Driver and published by

      Egmont UK Limited, The Yellow Building, 1 Nicholas Road, London, W11 4AN.

      Additional illustrations copyright © Joe McLaren 2017

      Additional interior illustrations by Janene Spencer.

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      First e-book edition 2018

      ISBN 978140584691

      Ebook ISBN 9781780317656

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       Cover

       Title Page

       Dedication and Copyright

Trianukka

The Spidermaster’s Lair

       Epigraph

Excerpt from The Sharkskin Scripts, Volume I: The Great Trianukkan Tribes

PART 1: The Hunted Child

1 The Withering

2 The Scarred Girl

3 The Sneaking

4 Blood on the Stones

5 Trouble’s Hook

6 Visitations

7 The Summons

8 Our Own Sneaking

       9 Wandering Warriors

       10 One Condition

       PART 2: The Moonlands

       11 The Inn Between

       12 Diggers-tip Cold

       13 Disbelievably Wretched Slackwit

       14 Lucky Find

       15 Bloodcakes

       16 By Tooth, by Nail

       17 Burial

       18 You with the Fire

       19 Forest of Nightfall

       20 Sneaky Trees

       21 True Mystiks

       PART 3: The Beasts are Coming

       22 Nightfall

       23 Akhund Olm

       24 The College of Medsin

       25 Webs and Smog

       26 Beckoning the Spirits Out

       27 Rough as a Clam

       28 Gather the Ghosts

       29 The Shadow of Spiders

       30 Back from the Brink

       31 Realm of Fog and Pearls

       32 Don’t You Remember?

       33 The Belly for the Work

       34 Breaking the Chains

       35 Not Too Clever

       36 Wherever We Rest Our Bones

       37 Brew an Uprising

       38 Battle

       39 False Crown

       40 The Crown

       41 Frozen Breath

       42 My Daughter

       43 Thaw

       44 Sea, Sky, Land