When puzzle-loving Kip Bramley receives a cryptic invitation, delivered by a beetle-shaped drone that appears to be breathing, he has no idea that his world is about to change forever.
Very soon he finds himself at Quicksmiths College of Strange Energy, hunting for riddles set 400 years earlier by a mysterious genius.
Loris Owen was born in Bolton and raised in Zimbabwe. She roamed the world in search of adventure before settling in the Midlands, where she can still be found exploring the canals, navigating mountains of post-it notes, and occasionally disappearing down a vortex of wordplay.
