After completing the trilogy His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman returned to its enchanted world to tell another story for readers 9 to 12 about Lyra Belacqua, set in the years after the events of The Amber Spyglass. When a witch's daemon crashes onto the roof of Jordan College, Lyra and her daemon, Pan, are eager to help. But as this unlikely trio scours the winding streets of Oxford in search of a famed alchemist, their journey takes a deadly turn.