An exciting new stand-alone adventure by the internationally bestselling
author of The Letter for the King.
Seven paths, seven unlikely friends, and one extraordinary adventure
featuring magicians, secret passages, conspiracies, hidden treasures, a
black cat with green eyes and a sealed parchment which predicts the
future.
At the end of every schoolday, new teacher Mr Van der Steg entertains
his pupils with tall tales of incredible events, which he claims really
happened to him - involving hungry lions and haunted castles, shipwrecks
and desert islands. One day, when he can't think of anything suitably
exciting to tell them, he invents a story about a very important letter
which he's expecting that evening, with news of a perilous mission.
Evening arrives and so, to his surprise, does an enigmatic letter...
And so Mr Van der Steg is drawn into a real-life adventure, featuring a
grumpy coachman, a sinister uncle, eccentric ancestors, a hidden
treasure, an ancient prophecy and Geert-Jan, a young boy who is being
kept prisoner in the mysterious House of Stairs.