A New Darkness
Something is terrorizing the villages of the county. People are dying&#8212;covered in blood, their faces frozen in fear. But with not a wound on their bodies.Battling creatures of the dark is the job of the local spook, but seventeen-year-old Thomas Ward never finished his apprenticeship. It will be no easy task to earn the trust of the villagers and to defeat a monster that no one has ever seen.Yet Jenny&#8212;a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter&#8212;knows an awful lot about this new evil. And she&#39;s willing to share what she&#39;s learned with Tom . . . if he takes her on as his apprentice. No girl has ever been a spook&#39;s apprentice before. But vanquishing this creature will take Tom and Jenny far from home. And that&#39;s exactly what Jenny wants.This new arc in the legend of Thomas Ward, the hero of the best-selling The Last Apprentice series, begins a dark and sweeping adventure that will chill your very soul.