Patricia Bow's Passage to Mythrin

Book 1: The Ruby Kingdom

From the Dundurn Group in February 2007 . . .

Mountains, travel, adventure —Amelia Hammer wants it all. Instead, her globe-trotting parents have dumped her in tiny, boring Dunstone, Ontario in the middle of winter with her grandmother and her geeky cousin Simon. Simon isn’t having much fun either, saddled with this sulky stranger in black leather and neon hair. And he has to be nice to her. That's tough, even with his best friend Ike there to help.

But life in safe little Dunstone turns dangerously exciting when Mara comes to town. Amelia is enchanted by this tall, proud, fearless girl, but Simon worries Mara’s mixed up in something weird. He’s right. Mara is not what she seems, and neither is the shape-shifting assassin who’s tracking her. When Amelia, Simon and Ike take Mara’s side in a war for an alien world, Amelia has to spread her wings—literally—and Simon must find out how far he will go to save a cousin who has become a friend.

ISBN: 9781550026672

Available online from Amazon and Chapters and from independent bookstores such as Words Worth Books, Waterloo, Ontario. 

Coming soon . . .

The Prism Blade (Passage to Mythrin 2). It's the day of the annual Dunstone and Area Weird Games (DAWG). Since it's the only games competition anywhere that favours geeks over jocks, Simon and Ike figure they stand a good chance of winning. But then Amelia makes a strange new friend, and so does Simon. The two new friends are deadly enemies to each other, and they're both after the legendary Prism Blade. Simon, Ike and Amelia need to find the blade before someone can use it to destroy Mara's people.