The double-edged sword - Sarah Pinborough

'Sixteen's an interesting age: not quite a fully grown man, but not a kid either. Anything is possible when you're sixteen.'

Finmere
Tingewick Smith was abandoned on the steps of the Old Bailey. Under the
guardianship of the austere Judge Harlequin Brown and the elderly
gentlemen of Orrery House, Fin has grown up under a very strange set of
rules. He spends alternate years at two very different schools and now
he's tired of the constant lies to even his best friends, to hide the
insanity of his double life. Neither would believe the truth!


But
on his sixteenth birthday, everything changes. The Judge is killed,
stabbed in the chest with a double-edged sword that's disturbingly
familiar, and from that moment on, Fin is catapulted into an
extraordinary adventure. Through the Doorway in Fin's London, a hole in
the boundaries of Existence, lies another London -- and now both are in
grave danger.

For the Knights of Nowhere have kidnapped the
Storyholder, the keeper of the Five Eternal Stories which weave the
worlds together. Because of the Knights' actions, a black storm is
coming, bringing madness with it.


Fin may be just 16, but he has a long, dark journey ahead of him if he is to rescue the Storyholder and save Existence!