The Caretakers: The Second Book in the Crowsbrook Chronicles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780993702020)

Hogarth Merrick lives alone and keeps to himself. He doesn't bother anyone and no one ever comes to visit him. And if he has to pay a price for his peace and quiet, then that's what he's willing to do... no matter how terrible it is.

Teenage skeptic Jez Elliott and her best mate Sam Katz have barely spoken since their last brush with the paranormal. Meanwhile, village witch Sarah Trevelyan is still trying to work out how to fulfill an ancient blood oath in the twenty-first century... and she's running out of time.

But when a local boy goes missing, Jez and Sam are dragged back into the world of magic and monsters, and Sarah is called upon to find out the truth about his disappearance. But Sarah has her own troubles to contend with, as a trio of mysterious women in black arrive in the village looking for answers...