Michael Panckridge, author of the Toby Jones cricketing series, joins forces with Australian Rugby League legend Laurie Daly to bring us an exciting new sporting series – League of Legends.

Sam Davies loves rugby league more than anything – and now he's been chosen to train in the Country squad! He loves league so much that he even sneaks out to watch the Salamanders, his most despised team, play – any football is better than no football.

Sneaking out leads to serious complications when Sam witnesses something on the way home from the match that is somehow tied up with the Salamanders football team and the missing Fogherty Shield.

Something really weird is going on, and with the help of his friends, Sam is determined to find out just what it si. But in the process it looks like might end up discovering more than he's bargained for ...