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The Uninvited

By: Ross MacKenzie
Narrated by: James Rottger
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When the Faerae folk flee their world and come to ours, running from the nightmare of war, nobody in the everyday knows what to do. So they are locked away.

Thirteen-year-old Samm Wolfback lives in Glass Forest, a sprawling Faerae refugee camp in England. Life in Glass Forest is hard, poisoned by disease and crime and poverty. But Samm has a unique gift that lines his pockets – he can find lost things.

When Samm is thrust into the centre of a plot to escape Glass Forest and return home, he must use his gifts to unearth two treasures lost in the everyday: a relic that will end the war back in Faerae; and the only person with the power to reopen the door between worlds – the Locksmith. The task will take Samm to dark places filled with danger, from a grimly enchanted circus of nightmares to a museum housing a murderous exhibit, and he will have to use all of his skills to stay alive.

Meanwhile, in the human world, a kidnapped boy with a dark secret begins to realise that he might hold the key to the Faerae folks' fate. Before all is said and done, destiny's web will entangle him with Samm and send them spinning towards a showdown with the great evil that lurks in the world beyond the door.

©2025 Ross MacKenzie (P)2025 Bolinda Publishing Mysteries Mystery & Suspense Science Fiction & Fantasy War Destiny

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'A rare combination of wildly imaginative and deeply thought-provoking. Simply magical.' (A.F. Steadman, New York Times bestselling author of the Skandar series)
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A book packed with adventure, tension, prejudice, greed, friendship and daring. This book has it all. Using a sci-fi slant to get the reader to think about immigration is something I’ve not read before and it worked. At its heart is how good happens when people join together and support one another. Evil and green are solitary and are defeated not by one person being stronger than another but when people come together for the common good. Loved this.

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