Scout's Honor

Prudence Perry is a legacy Ladybird Scout who infiltrates the organization to steal the Tea of Forgetting, a tincture laced with an amnesia spell, to confront her past and fight demons.

Format: Hardback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 09 May 2022
Publisher: St Martin's Press

Prudence Perry, a sixteen-year-old legacy Ladybird Scout, is born into a family of hunters dedicated to safeguarding humans from the menacing mulligrubs, interdimensional parasites that feed on human emotions such as sadness and anger. While the Ladybirds present themselves as a prim and proper ladies' social organization, they are actually a covert group that brews poisonous teas disguised as harmless beverages and employs knitting needles as deadly weapons, until they advance to axes and swords. Three years ago, Prue's best friend was tragically killed during a hunt, causing her to bid farewell to the Scouts and embrace the company of her punkish friends, affectionately known as the Criminal Element. This decision deeply disappointed her mother and Tía Lo, but Prue couldn't shake off her guilt and trauma, leading her to devise a risky plan to infiltrate the Ladybirds in search of the Tea of Forgetting, a restricted tincture laced with a potent amnesia spell. However, her old monster-slaying habits prove difficult to break, and Prue finds herself drawn back into the fold, forming close bonds with the junior scouts she trains to combat the creatures she fears. When her town is besieged by a mysterious wave of demons, Prue realizes it's time to face the most formidable monster of all: her past.

Weight: 300g
Dimension: 208 x 135 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781250246738