The Krybosian Stairpath

Eleven-year-old geologist, Madison Terrence, is desperate to solve a haunting family mystery that is ruining her life. In Cavern City, Virginia, Madison and her family live in an extraordinary underground house. Its rock-themed exterior belies the four-story mansion hidden within, complete with a gem and treasure filled attic room and a back yard that is really a huge limestone cavern. During a time when troubling signs hint that an otherworldly menace is hunting for the unusual crystal on her necklace, Madison discovers a strange stairpath portal in the cavern that seems to spiral down into the earth below her home. It's this stairpath that will take Madison, her little brother, and her best friend, into a world of wonder deep inside the earth. When she descends the Krybosian Stairpath, a mystery from her family's past begins to unravel. She soon realizes her arrival in the interior world of Krybos is no accident. Madison discovers that she's been pulled into a sinister plot to destroy the most beautiful place she has ever seen. The Krybosian Stairpath puts forth the notion that just because you don't understand something, it doesn't mean there must be magic behind it. Knowledge and perspective can make all the difference. (Interior chapter art by Virginia artist Carolyn Bradley.)