The Keeper of Tales Trilogy
Discover âthe ultimate experienceâ (Julia Fierro, author of The Gypsy Moth Summer) in modern fantasy with this astounding, epic conclusion to the Keeper of Tales Trilogy, bringing together the cryptic prophecy in The Mapmakerâs War with the troubling mysteries in The Chronicle of Secret Rivenâleading to an unforgettable reckoning between lies and truth. We are all born made of gold. Secret Rivenâthe mystically gifted heroine who now represses her uncanny telepathic powerâworks for the mysterious magnate Fewmany as an archivist in his private library. There, she stumbles upon the arcane manuscript that had vanished following her motherâs untimely death. She suspects the manuscript contains a profound secret, but she is yet unaware of its link to a thousand-year-old war and her own familyâs legacy. The tasks before her are clear: Secret must finally learn what Fewmany wants from her as well as the meaning of a strange symbol sheâs dreamed of since childhood. At last, she must confront the questions haunting her and depart on a quest to find the truth about herself, her dead mother, and her fateâto unleash a Plague of Silences meant to destroy, and transform, the world as all have known it. A dazzling, genre-bending masterwork, The Plague Diaries is âa fantastical adventure, populated by finely drawn characters and charted with marvelous plot twistsâ (Nicholas Christopher, author of A Trip to the Stars) that illuminates the power of our choices, the scars they leave, and the wounds they heal.