We are delighted to reveal the fabulous cover for our forthcoming (May) title, The Lastling, Victor Kelleher’s amazing new science fiction novel for upper middle-grade readers. Isn’t it gorgeous! The cover illustration and design is by the wonderful Lorena Carrington, who has illustrated all the covers of the Victor Kelleher titles which we have had the privilege of publishing (the others being Wanderer and The Cave).

Here’s a bit about the book:

It’s a day like any other for Guido, performing his usual duties as a Droid guide in the Wilderness Park, until he receives a shocking warning: human Enforcers are about to eliminate him and all his fellow Droids, on the orders of the supreme leader, Brother John. Desperate to escape, he does a forbidden thing and disobeys a direct order. And that sets in train a chain of consequences that will reach over the years to a human girl named Verne, who’s been hired to break into the home of an old Enforcer and retrieve a mysterious weapon…

What happens next will set both Verne and Guido on the path to discovering the dangerous truth about the world they thought they knew–and forge unexpected bonds between them.

An extraordinary, gripping adventure set in a disturbing future, The Lastling is also a thoughtful, timely exploration of what it means to be human.