Hen is eleven and on the run.
Something bad happened to Mum at Easter and now she's gone, she's missing. That's when things go wrong, you see: when something important's missing.
Dad knows what's happened, or he's got a good idea, and that's why he and Hen are now running, so that they don't go missing, too.
Missing joins Hen and Dad just as they can run no further and, though they don't know it, danger is catching up...
It's about hiding in museums and on building sites, in ditches and on canals, hoping that the hideous rasping breathing you can hear will walk on by.
It's about making friends when you don't know who you can trust.
It's about looking behind the everyday world and seeing what goes on beneath.
It's about running and not getting caught.
Hen's story starts here.
Missing is the first episode in the Auriga Command series; it's Hen's first steps in solving the mystery of what happened to Mum, and to fixing it.
Who is Hen?
Hen is everyone and anyone. Hen could be you. I'd be thrilled if Hen were your hero.
Can I read Missing?
Missing is for anyone aged nine and up who likes mysteries, adventures and righting wrongs. It's the things that scare and amaze us all, written for real. There are worse and more wonderful things in the world than wizards and master criminals, and they live next door.
There are over 67,000 words, some of them really good ones. A few I made up myself.
Missing starts a journey that will take you everywhere.
About the Author: Dmytro was born and grew up in Coventry surrounded by houses and chickens, and has been escaping ever since. As a boy he ran races with his dog, drew pictures of starships, and dreamt of living in trees. He could never decide what to do at school, so ended up at university doing physics... where he still ran races, drew pictures, and dreamt of trees. It was never going to work out, so he left uni early and got a job as an editor, which until he started writing himself was the best job he ever did: helping people invent books. (If he couldn't live in a tree, Dmytro was going to live in a library.) So, editing's the sort of job where people always ask you whether (or when) you're going to write a book yourself. Eventually he did. He started writing and now won't stop. (It's annoying.) These days, Dmytro lives in Gloucestershire, in a little valley, on the side of a steep hill, with his lovely wife, teenage son and current cat. (There's always been a cat; the wife and son are newer.) One day he'll live in a tree. You can contact Dmytro on Twitter @AurigaHen - he likes libraries, little bridges and questions.
