

Alake Pilgrim
FOR FANS OF KATHERINE RUNDELL'S THE EXPLORER AND THE PERCY JACKSON SERIES: a Caribbean island adventure with fantastical and futuristic twists. ZO AND THE FOREST OF SECRETS (Book 1 of an exciting new MG series) is out this JUNE '22 from Knights Of. It stars Zo Joseph and Adri Khan, two children from the same island, but with different secrets, trying to escape strange creatures and dangerous adults who are after them and their gifts. A thrilling nature and environmental adventure, join this wild journey through hill and forest, swamp and sea, mangrove, caves and beaches.
Author: Alake Pilgrim has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, thanks to the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. She's a graduate of New York University and Bates College in Maine. Her stories have won the Prize for the Americas in the Commonwealth Short Story Competition, been published by the Center for Fiction in New York, and in the international anthology New Daughters of Africa, ed. Margaret Busby (Myriad Editions UK and HarperCollins US).