Dorrity is the only child in magic-free Owl Town.
When she finds an enchanted book with dire
predictions, she must face her enemies. And who
is the strange boy who has appeared in the Beastly
Dark?
This stand-alone pre-teen adventure/fantasy novel
is the third book in the Tales of Fontania series
of novels, following The Travelling Restaurant (which
received a starred review in Kirkus: A heaping plateful
of adventure, spiced to perfection with dangers, deft
humor and silly bits.) and The Queen and the Nobody Boy.
A rollicking steampunk sea adventure in which a boy who suffers stage-fright is suddenly centre stage: the only one who can right an ancient wrong and save the kingdom.