The story of how a boy and a rat met... and how their magical adventures began. With the human race under threat from an evil Fae overlord, it falls to Brennan, a teenage boy from Thornaby-on-Tees, to step up and fight. The only problem is he has to do it with Riz, a talking rat with darker origins than Brennan could ever realise... Based on real folklore and real locations, combined with witty characters and a dry dynamic between Brennan and Riz, the debut novel from Peter James Martin is packed with the familiar and the unusual. “Charismatic, lots of fun, and I love the interplay between Brennan and Riz. Riz is brilliant!” “Funny, new, snappy and totally addictive.”