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2022 CBCA Book of the Year Notables – Younger Readers

Six mysterious passengers and seven dark secrets. Who can be trusted?

It’s a dark and dangerous journey for the Cobb and Co night mail coach, but when his coach-driver father is injured, young Jem Donovan must take the reins.

Surely a boy like Jem can’t handle a team of four horses and guide the coach on a rough bush track through fog and untold dangers?

But there are six passengers on the coach tonight, each with a secret.

And if Jem can’t get them all to their destination by morning, the seventh secret could be deadly …

Ages 10+