The next action-packed FIREBORN adventure-The best kind of children-s fantasy story: thrilling and imaginative- B. B. Alston, author of Amari and the Night Brothers-The perfect balance of high adventure, breathless action and eerie wonder- Jonathan Stroud, author of the Bartimaeus trilogyHOPE GROWS FROM THE ASHES . . .Twelve has become a hunter and chosen a new name to reflect her elemental power: Phoenix.Three months after the destruction of the Hunting Lodge, a witch arrives from the frost palace of Icegaard, desperate for Phoenix-s help. Icegaard is in grave danger from an evil force called the Shadowseam, and if the witch-palace falls, all the clans of Ember will fall with it.Travelling north, Phoenix and her friends, Five, Six and Seven, must battle frightening new monsters and find a way to defeat the Shadowseam. But as Phoenix learns to control her new power, the faceless Croke begins to haunt her dreams . . .Phoenix will have to fight with everything she-s got to save Ember fro