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Fleur Beale ; illustrated by Lily Uivel.

205 pages.

Summary: People have been disappearing overnight and the village children are left to fend for themselves under the tyrannical schoolteachers Murk and Misselthwaite. There are whispers that the trouble started ten years ago when a beautiful but wicked woman -- 'the golden-haired hellion' -- appeared at a wedding. Dance has some powerful gifts that she's only just beginning to discover, and while she knows it's dangerous to ask questions, she is determined to find this golden-haired hellion -- even if it means getting disappeared. When Dance finds her, the golden-haired hellion had better look out.