Feeling shackled by a town too small and a life too limited, fourteen-year old Matt Freeman yields to the taunts of a streetwise punk and breaks into an electronics warehouse. The violent aftermath results in his sentencing to foster care in a curious Yorkshire village that harbors sinister secrets. There, Matt uncovers his destined role as a gatekeeper against the release of ancient evils through Raven’s Gate, a portal in the town’s abandoned nuclear plant. Threats surround Matt in the form of attacks by dinosaur skeletons, dark witchcraft, and the deaths of those who try to help. It’s a heart-thumping contemporary thriller . nlr

Originally published by Walker Books Great Britain, in 2005; based on an idea first published in 1983 as The Devil’s Doorbell.