The next day the news is out that they're apparently a couple, madly in love and coming to Oxlea to spend the festive season with Christopher's family. It's the golden rule of pretending to be someone's girlfriend: don't fall for their sister.Īfter a year from hell, Haf is ready to blow off steam at a Christmas party: a kind stranger, a few too many drinks and suddenly she's kissing Christopher under the mistletoe - in front of his ex-girlfriend.

Cover illustrated by Harry Woodgate and designed by Sophie McDonnell. With a little extra help from spiky Stevie and sweet-hearted Chia, can Vivi be brave enough to embrace true friendship and her magical destiny to help protect the world from evil? The first book in a fantastical series that combines a quest for magic and friendship with Welsh mythology and a pinch of science, all within a contemporary setting. Oh, and now she can magically control water. Gelert insists that Vivi is part of a magical group of children who share the souls of witches from legend and must protect the world from being taken over by the evil King Arawn of the Otherworld. Instead of a quiet swim, she finds Excalibur (much smaller than she expected), a ferocious monster (much scarier in real life than in her mythology books), a new friend (which she doesn't want at all) called Dara and a ghostly dog named Gelert (who can talk). On the day she and her Mams will move from Wales to London, she sneaks out to investigate what is calling her there.

'The problem with growing up listening to bedtime stories about monsters, magic and myth is that you don't really question it when a lake summons you.' The lake has been calling to twelve-year-old Vivi Conway.

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