Zo and the Forest of Secrets

PERCY JACKSON MEETS KATHERINE RUNDELL'S THE EXPLORER! A thrilling Caribbean island adventure and exciting new fantasy series, with futuristic twists. 'FUTURISTIC AND BRILLIANTLY EXCITING' Katherine Rundell (The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer) 'A FABULOUS BOOK... NAIL-BITING ADVENTURE' Kereen Getten (When Life Gives You Mangoes) 'INCREDIBLE... ONE TO WATCH' Emma Kuyateh, Primary Teacher Bookshelf When Zo decides to run away from home, she isn't scared; after all, she knows the island like the back of her hand. But, as she journeys through the once-familiar forest, terrifying creatures and warped visions begin to emerge. With a beast on her heels and a lost boy thrown into her path, could a mysterious abandoned facility hold answers? Zo must unravel the secrets of the forest before she is lost in them forever...

Alake Pilgrim writes from the uncanny islands of Trinidad & Tobago in the Caribbean, where people are connected to Africa, India, China, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, thanks to the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship, and an MA in Latin American & Caribbean Studies from New York University. Her stories have twice won the regional prize for the Americas in the Commonwealth Short Story Competition. They have been published by The Center for Fiction in New York, the Small Axe Journal, and in the groundbreaking international anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby (Myriad Editions and HarperCollins).