Author(s): Fiona Dunbar

Young Adult

Set in the not too distant future, this is the first gripping installment of the "Silk Sisters" trilogy. Rorie, aged 12, and her younger 7-year old sister, Elsie live with their parents - both inventors - and their pet chameleon, Arthur Clarkson. One ordinary morning, the parents set off to a meeting to sell their latest, and most exciting invention, but, mysteriously, they never arrive at their destination. Rorie and Elsie are put in the guardianship of their dour uncle and aunt - who run a repressed and imposing boarding school - Pokerbute Hall. When the sisters can take no more of their cruel uncle and aunt and the torturously boring school, they make a bid for freedom and run away determined to discover the truth behind their parent's disappearance.