Ever-After Island

Ryan and Sara Finney were used to exploring remote parts of the world; since their mother died, their fish-expert father had taken them on a number of expeditions. But never to an island that was only a dot marked with an X on a hand-drawn map. And certainly never with as secretive a leader as Dr. Moody Murk, who had already found the bones of a little manlike creature, unknown to science, and who was fanatically looking for the discovery of a lifetime.

Ryan was especially curious about Dr. Murk's hoped-for scientific coup when he saw the ship the old man had chartered – strangely like a pirate vessel. And even more curious were the scientist's carefully guarded research sources – strangely like fairy tale volumes.

In a delightfully readable story, an accomplished author mixes some old folk-fancies into a new and amusing reality.