How do you save the world when it’s already too late? Don’t ask Leo Lloyd-Jones. Ask him how to steal a car, or why he got excluded from every school in Salford, but don’t come to him for help. This whole thing must be a daft mistake – and if anyone finds out, he’s done for. Earth is on a deadly collision course that nothing can prevent. The only real hope is Project Firebird, deep inside a blast-proof bunker that shelters the brightest and bravest young people. Leo has got mixed up with the likes of Rhys Carnarvon, the celebrated teenage polar explorer, and other child prodigies chosen to kick-start a new civilisation. There’s also the streetwise Paige Harris, a girl Leo likes a lot (but not in that way). Paige is desperate to rescue her little sister from London before the catastrophe strikes. But no-one is crazy enough to try that. Almost no-one. Leo is about to find out why he’s here.

From the Shivering Mountain to the mouth of the Echo’s Cave, the Firebird will make its final stand. Coping with a new baby feels like the greatest challenge of Leo’s life so far, until his home is threatened on two fronts. Tribes from the famine-stricken continent are rampaging northwards, with the fertile Firebird Kingdom dead in their sights. But more terrifying still is the one who leads them – whose very name is an impossible riddle. Yet worse is to come. The famine will eventually claim the Kingdom unless new strains of crop seeds can save them. Forced to desert his young family, Leo must enlist the help of the Wizard Karna Vun on a desperate quest to the last place on earth where such seeds may be found. But their enemy too has learned of this place of power – and if he gets there first, then the world really is doomed this time. The final volume in the epic FIREBIRD TRILOGY. "One of my favourite trilogies." – L A Weatherly, author of Angel Burn, Angel Fire and Angel Fever