Countdown to Christmas'Jo sweeps you away to a better place with every book, which are always filled with warmth, love and a big spoonful of happiness' Veronica Henry Chloe can't wait for Christmas . . . to be over! Her son Ruben is staying with his dad this year and Chloe is planning to ignore the holidays all together. Her only nod to the season is the advent calendar Ruben left her, to help count down the days till he's home again. But then an heir hunter gets in touch,

Jack Luxton

But as she delves into his past

Amy has insisted she never wants to see her real mother again

Mog Winter after all

and combined moments of incredible action with unparalleled exploration of and expansion into space

As he came he grew bigger and bigger until he was like a lorry charging through the pipes

makes daily pilgrimages to her sons room and tortures herself with memories

Stretching from the streets of London to the brothels of Venice and all the way to ruined palaces of Constantinople

anthropologist and wounded adventurer

seeking the final answer to the riddle of her life

There is a curse

if they are to survive the coming devastation - for Concord is about to unleash the Wave again