The Hidden Scroll: Of Ink and Fire: 1

Come to Fabella, where words may be the deadliest weapons of all. After her family mysteriously went missing, fourteen-year-old Keziah was left alone with no other relatives except her aunt. The only clues to her family's disappearance are in the journal hidden within her father's old desk. Keziah is desperate to find her missing family, and her father's notebook hints at another place-a realm world. She's convinced her missing family is in that otherworld and is searching for a way to get there. When her aunt declares she's selling her family's bookshop, Keziah's world comes crashing around her, until one day she collides with Nash and they're plunged into the foreign realm of Fabella. In a place that shouldn't exist, Keziah and Nash are arrested as runaway pirates. After convincing their captors they aren't criminals, Keziah and Nash are discovered to be part of the remnant to find the hidden scrolls, as foretold by the script. Now they must be protected at all costs, agreeing to be escorted from the realm by a ragtag airship crew. They are on the run from empire mercenaries and forced into a treacherous labyrinth where ruthless airship pirates await, seeking a poetic key locked in Keziah's mind. The only clues on how to use the hidden words lay coded in her father's notebook. The words wait deep inside Keziah, words that could either bring power or disaster to those around her. But Nash has his own set of secrets, too.The truth could mean life or death - and the lurking shadows are closing in.