Andrea Eames

Elise loves the farm that is her home; she loves playing with beetles and chameleons in the garden, buying sweets from the village shop and listening to the stories of spirits....

Everyone in Foss Butcher’s village knows what happens when the magic-workers come; they harvest human hearts to use in their spells. That’s just how life in her kingdom works. But Foss, plain, clumsy, and practical as a boot, never expected anyone would want hers.

Tinashe is a young Shona boy living in a small village in rural Rhodesia. When his younger sister, Hazvinei, is born, Tinashe knows at once that there is something special about her....