Firebloom
A story with a sting in its… tentacle!
No-one loves jellyfish more than Tally Smuck. Her family have harvested jelly stings for years during Stormcliff’s annual Firebloom Festival, when thousands of the glowing creatures arrive at the windswept island.
But this year, they don’t appear.
Without them, visitors will stop coming to Stormcliff. Worse still, the locals—including Tally’s grandads and her best friend, Farran—will run out of the jelly-sting cures and balms they rely on.
With Laird Vorpal, the island’s sinister owner, demanding answers, and Stormcliff’s future looking bleaker by the day, Tally needs to find the jellyfish—and fast! If she’d been a sting winkler, like they say her mother was once, Tally would be able to ‘talk’ to the jellies and discover what’s going on. Instead, she sets out on a mission that could take her all the way from the ocean, up the island’s steepest cliff to the Laird’s fortress-like tower.
On the way, Tally discovers that answers aren’t always where you expect to find them, and that help can come from your best friends… or even your mortal enemies. It might even be wearing shells or feathers!