The Seeing Scroll

A middle grade children's mystery with a little bit of magic.

When police exhume the body in her grandfather's coffin, 12-year-old Gia Lance already knows that it isn't him. And given that her dad won't believe her, what choice does she have but to enlist the help of her drama-king best friend? Their daring, behind the scenes search for her grandfather leads to the discovery of a secret riddle, a hidden plateau and an enchanted scroll steeped in mystery. It lures them by exposing visions - fragments of well-kept secrets.

Gia soon grapples with an eerie tale of a dungeon, an ill-fated ship, a missing child, and the legendary curse of the Seeing Scroll. But whose secrets are they? How does the scroll decide what she sees? Who can she trust? More importantly, what does it any of it have to do with her grandfather?

Time is running out and for Gia to connect the dots, she must confront the idea of her grandfather not being who she thought he was. But there are people after the scroll. Dangerous people! Clearly, they'll do anything to ensure their secrets remain buried. Maybe even their crimes. Can Gia evade them on her quest to find the truth, solve the riddle and figure out how to save her grandfather without being duped by the scroll's delicious secrets, or will they be forever lost?