“There were heavy guns in the smoke behind the lion, a flash of steel and a crack of flame. People screamed and died. It would crush him if he didn’t get away.”

Luke plans to spend the autumn half term helping his father restore an old fishing boat at the top end of Fynn Creek. Angel craves excitement. Helen longs to go home. But this is Halloween. It’s the last week of the waning moon and nothing is quite as it seems. The three of them find themselves in the dark night of the North Sea threatened by violence in the present and from the past.

The Lion of Sole Bay is a modern adventure story inspired by the historical events of the Battle of Sole Bay in 1672.

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