Martin Vine: 2 books

The final day of the Cicada Festival and war clouds gather over Broken Meadow. The Hidden Tribe have emerged from their highland stronghold to claim the lake; the Cadet Corp have Parchmond locked under martial law, and in downtown Bridgetown festivities have resumed in the shadow of conflict. Under...

Lucky to have survived the inferno that destroyed the rope bridge, Hopskotch wakes up battered and bruised on the wrong side of Saddleslip Gorge alongside Flek and the robed stranger claiming to be his brother. Tannen leads the youngsters to a secret settlement deep in the high country where they become swept up in the politics of the hidden tribe. A dark storm is approaching Bridgetown.