Although Book 2, this is the one you read first Charles Elo built a career on bedtime stories, whimsical tales of a hidden kingdom, a wind-spirit muse, and a little girl's imaginary friend named Linus. His daughter Olivia loves him best of all. So when Olivia insists her friend is real, that a kingdom called Calliope sits just behind the walls of her bedroom, Charles tells her it's only a story. Olivia and her mother vanish without a trace, and the only clue Charles has is the one thing he never let himself believe: his books were never fiction at all. With the help of his eleven-year-old niece, EmeryCuinn, they step into the world he thought he'd invented: a realm of wind spirits and river guardians, ancient labyrinths and older enemies, where ordinary courage might be the only magic that matters. Some doors, once opened, don't just lead to another world. They lead you home to whom you were always meant to be.
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