The powers of evil are strengthening and only one man holds them back.Now that man needs an apprentice. Tom Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son, and he has been chose. When one of the world's most malevolent witches escapes, Tom will face his first test.

Revenge of the witch first published in 2004 and Curse of the bane first published in 2005 in Great Britain by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, under the titles The Spook's apprentice and The spook's curse."--T.p. verso.

Revenge of the witch (Bk. 1) -- Curse of the bane (Bk. 2).