N D Wilson author of Leepike Ridge and Cupboards returns with an action-packed adventure that will captivate fans of both Percy Jackson and Indiana Jones with lost civilizations ancient secrets and buried treasureFor two years Cyrus and Antigone Smith have run a sagging roadside motel with their older brother Daniel Nothing ever seems to happen Then a strange old man with bone tattoos arrives demanding a specific roomLess than hours later 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 explorers who have long served as caretakers of the worlds secrets keepers of powerful relics from lost civilizations and jailers to unkillable criminals who have terrorized the world for millennia.
