Seeker by William Nicholson

Published by Egmont Books Ltd

Price £6.99

If you read and enjoyed The Wind on Fire Trilogy, Seeker the First Book in The Noble Warriors Trilogy is very different, but just as captivating and enthralling. On the rocky island of Anacrea, in a garden at the heart of the great castle-monastery called the Nom, lives the All and Only, the god who made all things, protected by an elite band of fighter monks. These are the Nomana, also known as the Noble Warriors. Seeker, who lives on Anacrea, has just turned sixteen, old enough to follow his brother Blaze into the ranks of the Nomana.  Far away, Morning Star, also just sixteen, is trying to find a way to tell her beloved father that she wants to join the Nomana. Morning Star has a unique skill – she can see people’s auras, the faint colours around their bodies that reveal what they’re feeling. .Many miles to the north, the Wildman is raiding a defenceless village when he faces two of the Nomana, and finds himself helpless. Overwhelmed and awed, from this moment on he too wants to be a Noble Warrior. Three very different heroes, brought together by a shared dream: to be chosen to enter the Nom, to be trained in the remarkable powers of the Noble Warriors, and to learn the mysteries of the god who lives in the Garden.

But these are dangerous times. In the imperial city of Radiance, a city ruled by priests where human sacrifices are thrown to their death every evening, the plans to attack the Nom are far advanced. Seeker, Morning Star and the Wildman become involved in saving the god of the Nomana from destruction, and find that they may have to pay with their own lives.