The Hotel Under the Sand

Appealing to boys and girls alike, this beguiling adventure explores classic fantasy themes from a unique young heroines perspective. Nine-year-old Emma loses everything she has in a fearsome storm and finds herself alone in the wilderness of the Dunes—an area desolate since the mysterious disappearance of a resort known as the Grand Wenlocke. Finding a friend in Winston, the ghostly bellboy who wanders the Dunes, Emma learns that it has been more than 100 years since the hotel with an unsavory reputation vanished; but, unbeknownst to either of them, the long slumbering resort has just begun to stir. Allying herself with a motley crew of companions—the ghost bellboy, a kindhearted cook, a pirate with a heart of gold, and the imperious young heir to the Wenlocke fortune—Emma soon learns that things are not always as lost as they seem, especially if you have a brave heart and good friends.

Kage Baker is an actor, a director, a playwright, and a teacher of Elizabethan English as a second language. She is the author of Black Projects, White Nights; The Children of the Company; Gods and Pawns; The Graveyard Game; In the Garden of Iden; The Life of the World to Come; The Machine's Child; Mendoza in Hollywood; Sky Coyote; and The Son's of Heaven. She lives in Pismo Beach, California.