"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, 14-year-old Blue Jasper must enter the enchanted Crosswood when his twin siblings are kidnapped by a Faerie king."-- Blue Jasper is on a hike with his younger siblings, twins Indigo and Violet. One moment the twins are right ahead of him, and the next they are gone. As Blue frantically searches for them, a strange woman appears claiming to be the Faerie Queen Olea of Nearwood and the twins' real mother. Indigo and Violet have been captured by Olea's rival and now, because of a magical pact, Blue must travel through the magical forest of the Crosswood and rescue them before the next sunset. Because the price of a broken Faerie pact must be paid. Provided by publisher.

Includes an excerpt from another Orca Currents: The Wherewood by Gabrielle Prendergast.