Neil’s heart hammered twice, and then he was at the window. He grabbed for the latch at the side and twisted. There, locked! This brought him face to face with the cat burglar, if that was what this was.
The tips of their noses were three inches apart. Even in the jigsaw puzzle of moonlight and shadow, he could see the face clearly.
A young face, maybe thirteen. His own age. Black hair cut short. Eyes a glint of silver under straight black brows. Straight nose, straight mouth pressed thin. Skin the colour of moonlight.
It took a moment. Then Neil knew. The knowledge sent a shock wave of blood into his head and out again. He swayed dizzily.
Feature for feature, it was exactly the same as the face he saw in the bathroom mirror every morning.
The dark yew maze stands on a hill above Amstey. There is only one way into it, but there are two ways out, and one of them leads into the terrifying mind of the undead Dexter Gunn. His great-great-grand-nephew, Neil, is called upon to make that journey and set free a young woman imprisoned since the last century.
With the help of his new friend Fleur and what may or may not be the ghost of his own twin brother, Neil evades Dexter’s shape-shifting, half-animal agents as he seeks the hidden way to a world from which there may be no return.
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