Open At Eighteen: Companion novel to the Tiny Totle’s Timeless Treasure Timelines birthday series

Seven picture books. Seven sealed letters. One rule, and forty-one days until she is allowed to break it.Totle Enebeli's mother wrote her a book for every birthday from one to seven. In the back of each one is a page glued shut, sealed with a gold sticker and three words in her handwriting: open at eighteen. Claire Hart has been dead five years. Totle has kept the seals for all of them.Now the house is sold and Totle turns eighteen in forty-one days. Instead of opening the letters at the kitchen table, she loads them into an eighteen-year-old Corolla and drives them to the places they were written for: a lookout above the valley, a beach they stopped going to, the oldest rainforest on earth, a town at the end of the outback where a grandmother she has met exactly once still sends a card every December that nobody opens.The letters are not what she has been guarding. One has been through water. One holds a second envelope addressed to a woman her family does not name. And somewhere between the coast and the desert, Totle works out when the last three were really written, and what they cost.A novel about grief, inheritance and the arithmetic of families. Suitable for readers 14+. Includes a reading group guide.