The map was only the beginning. What's waiting on the other side is the real test.
The Varyen kids know their grandfather is out there somewhere. What they don't know is how much they still have to learn before they're ready to find him.
The trail leads to Coyote Mesa - eighty-seven miles of bad roads and no guarantees - and to Elias, the grandfather none of them ever knew existed. He isn't just going to hand them answers. He's going to teach them: how to read the patterns nature leaves behind, how to hear the difference between ordinary silence and the kind that means something is wrong, and how to survive a world where breaking a single rule can cost you everything.
Because the Boundary that separates their world from the one their parents disappeared into isn't holding the way it used to. Something is changing, faster than even Elias expected, and the Varyen kids are about to find out exactly how much bigger this story really is.
Perfect for readers who loved the mystery of Book One and are ready for the stakes to get real - with new allies whose loyalties aren't quite what they seem, a family history that goes back generations, and a door that, by the final page, is standing wide open.
The Varyen Files, Book 2. The lessons are over. The crossing is next.