The Spooks Destiny is the eighth installment in The Wardstone Chronicles series of fantasy novels written by British author Joseph Delaney, published in UK in 2011. It follows the Adventures of the Spook, Alice Deane and Thomas Ward on the far Ireland away from the County. Its subtitle is "His fate is chosen?" which refers to the Tom. The Wardstone Chronicles was published as The Last Apprentice series in the USA and is a dark fantasy series of books and published in the UK by The Bodley Head division of Random House Publishing.