Stars, Hide Your Fires: Book 1: Senny and the Island of Amber Light and Darkening Dreams

Raised by her fearsome, God-fearing grandmother, Senny has always felt different from the rich, white Hill Folk and the poor, black villagers: the two communities who just about get along on the tropical island.

She has been called a witch many times behind her back - and to her face - but she thought it was just another insult, that is until she turns thirteen and strange things start happening to her. Senny keeps seeing a strange amber glow in the sea and blacking out and then waking in places she cannot remember going to. While she sleeps, she dreams of a distant, grey city she has never been to. In this city, something is hunting her.

As she begins to accept that maybe she really is a witch, she find herself on a collision course with her Grandma, the Padre – the leader of the island’s Catholic church – Will Hapsworth’s gang and the island’s newest residents: a division of Nazi soldiers.