The second volume in Cliff McNish's bestselling debut trilogy.

Rachel and Eric have special gifts. She is a spell-maker who can fly, take any shape she pleases, see far and wide with her many-coloured eyes. He is a destroyer of spells.

When a party of Witches are despatched to Earth from the planet Ool, Rachel and Eric are tested to the limit. The High Witch will stop at nothing to destroy them and slay her old adversaries, the Wizards. A breathtakingly exciting story in which armies of Witches and Wizards swoop through the air and thousands of children all over the world are invested with astonishing magical powers.

Read by Siân Phillips

Music by Peter Rinne with Andrew Butler

Abridged by Patricia Saunders

Original text © Cliff McNish 2001© Doomspell Books 2019