Start your weekend with us as we celebrate the launch of Protector of Beyond with Shara Curlett, joined in conversation by fellow author Belinda Murrell.

A new hero. A new world. A story just beginning. Protector of Beyond is one of the most exciting children’s fantasy adventures of the year.

If you’re a fan of Nevermoor, Percy Jackson or Eragon, prepare for your next obsession. Join us and enter Beyond.

Free to attend, but RSVP essential.

About the book:

Magical creatures, perilous trials, and one unbelievable adventure in this new blockbuster fantasy series.

The moment you enter the Arbiter, your fate is sealed. If you spark, you fight!

Twelve-year-old Elder Triss never expected to produce a spark so rare — and so dangerous. But when she is torn from everything she knows and thrown into the mysterious world known as Beyond, she learns there is only one path forward: survive the trials and earn a place at the Academy of Protectors.

To get there, Elder must train for battle, face terrifying magical creatures and outlast friends who are quickly becoming rivals. But Beyond is more dangerous than it seems, and someone is trying to stop Elder from reaching the academy — and making it out alive…

About the authors:

Shara Curlett grew up surrounded by stories, from her mum’s bedtime reads to her dad’s whimsical space adventures. She wrote her first ‘novels’ at ten and rediscovered her passion for writing in 2016, completing two full-length manuscripts. A lifelong fantasy fan, she now writes to spark imagination in young readers, believing creativity fosters resilience. Shara lives on Auckland’s Hibiscus Coast with her husband, two kids, two dogs, and a dragon (bearded, but she’s still claiming it).

At about the age of eight, Belinda Murrell began writing stirring tales of adventure, mystery and magic in hand-illustrated exercise books. As an adult, she combined two of her great loves — writing and travelling the world — and worked as a travel writer, journalist and public relations consultant. Now, inspired by her own three children, Belinda is an award-winning, internationally published children’s author with a history of writing in her family that spans over 200 years. Her previous titles include The Golden Tower, her fantasy adventure series The Sun Sword trilogy, and her award-winning time-slip adventures, The Locket of Dreams, The Ruby Talisman, The Ivory Rose, The Forgotten Pearl, The River Charm, The Sequin Star, and The Lost Sapphire.

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