A thrilling fantasy series about a twelve year old girl who sets out
to save her Shinto goddess mother--and the world--by facing down demons
intent on bringing chaos.
"A grand adventure." --Brandon Mull, #1 New York Times bestselling
author of Fablehaven
"A wild ride of a novel...hilarious." --Sayantani DasGupta, New York
Times bestselling author of The Kingdom Beyond
All Momo wants for her twelfth birthday is an ordinary life--like
everyone else's. At home, she has to take care of her absentminded
widowed mother. At school, kids ridicule her for mixing up reality with
the magical stories her mother used to tell her.
But then Momo's mother falls gravely ill, and a death hag straight out
of those childhood stories attacks Momo at the mall, where she's rescued
by a talking fox . . . and "ordinary" goes out the window. It turns out
that Momo's mother is a banished Shinto goddess who used to protect a
long-forgotten passageway to Yomi--a.k.a. the land of the dead. That
passageway is now under attack, and countless evil spirits threaten to
escape and wreak havoc across the earth.
Joined by Niko the fox and Danny--her former best friend turned popular
jerk, whom she never planned to speak to again, much less save the world
with--Momo must embrace her (definitely not "ordinary") identity as
half human, half goddess to unlock her divine powers, save her mother's
life, and force the demons back to Yomi.