Seven Wonders Book 1: The Colossus Rises CD: Seven Wonders Book 1: The Colossus Rises CD (Seven Wonders)

Jack McKinley is an ordinary kid with an extraordinary problem. In six months, Jack is going to die.

After Jack collapses in the middle of a busy street, he's whisked off to a strange hospital in a strange place. There are armed guards and weird kids and fantastic creatures, not to mention no parents, no phones, and no possibility of escape. The place is run by an odd professor named Bhegad, who tells Jack that what's killing him is a genetic trait inherited from the prince of a long-lost civilization. It's destroying Jack by making him too strong too fast. He'll need to stay strong, though—because it's up to him to save the world.

Peter Lerangis is the author of more than one hundred and sixty books, which have sold more than five million copies and been translated into twenty-eight different languages, including three books in the New York Times bestselling series The 39 Clues (The Sword Thief, The Viper's Nest, and The Dead of Night). He is a Harvard graduate with a degree in biochemistry. After college he became a Broadway musical theater actor. He has run a marathon and gone rock climbing during an earthquake, but not on the same day. He lives in New York City with his wife, musician Tina deVaron, and their two sons, Nick and Joe. In his spare time, he likes to eat chocolate.