A King's RansomA King's Ransom
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After seven member of their family are kidnapped by a organization called the Vespers, Dan and Amy Cahill must race against time to track down an ancient map to pay as ransom to bring the hostages home.
Ordered by the Vespers to find a legendary map that has been missing for nearly a century, Amy and Dan travel through Europe to the Czech Republic, where they confront extreme circumstances that reveal an ultimate Vesper threat.
When seven members of their family were kidnapped by a sinister organization known as the Vespers, thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, vowed they'd stop at nothing to bring the hostages home. But then the ransom comes in and the Vespers demand the impossible. Amy and Dan have just days to track down and steal an ancient map. The only catch? No one has seen the map for half a century.
Now Amy and Dan are on a desperate search that will lead them to the Nazis, spies, a mad king and some of history's dirtiest secrets. It's the race of their lives . . . and one misstep will mean certain death for the hostages.
Amy and Dan are in a race for their lives . . . and the enemy may be even closer than they think.
Ordered by the Vespers to find a legendary map that has been missing for nearly a century, Amy and Dan travel through Europe to the Czech Republic, where they confront extreme circumstances that reveal an ultimate Vesper threat.
When seven members of their family were kidnapped by a sinister organization known as the Vespers, thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, vowed they'd stop at nothing to bring the hostages home. But then the ransom comes in and the Vespers demand the impossible. Amy and Dan have just days to track down and steal an ancient map. The only catch? No one has seen the map for half a century.
Now Amy and Dan are on a desperate search that will lead them to the Nazis, spies, a mad king and some of history's dirtiest secrets. It's the race of their lives . . . and one misstep will mean certain death for the hostages.
Amy and Dan are in a race for their lives . . . and the enemy may be even closer than they think.
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