For two years, Cyrus and Antigone Smith have run a sagging roadside motel with t
heir older brother, Daniel. Nothing ever seems to happen. Then a strange old man
with bone tattoos arrives, demanding a specific room.
Less than 24 hours lat
er, the old man is dead. The motel has burned, and Daniel is missing. And Cyrus
and Antigone are kneeling in a crowded hall, swearing an oath to an order of exp
lorers who have long served as caretakers of the world's secrets, keepers of pow
erful relics from lost civilizations, and jailers to unkillable criminals who ha
ve terrorized the world for millennia.
N. D. Wilson, author of Leepike Ridge
and 100 Cupboards, returns with an imagination-capturing adventure that inventi
vely combines the contemporary and the legendary.
