Marina Cohen

Twelve-year-old Kallie despises nonsense. She believes theres a rational explanation for everything, despite the good-natured prodding of her Grandpa Jess, who takes her to frivolous wastes of time like their towns local Festival of Fools.

There, Kallie meets a faceless man (must be some kind of mask) who gives her a strange wooden puzzle box (must be some kind of gimmick). Intrigued despite herself, Kallie sets to work on unlocking its secrets and-¦lets something out. From here Kallies life begins to entangle with another world, a world where Liah, a young bone carver, journeys with her master to sell wares to a wicked Queen.

The sights, sounds, smells, and spells of Liahs world are beginning to leak into Kallies, and if Kallie cant decipher the meaning of her own story, -oethe end- might be far from happy.