. . "Ward, John" . . "Solving the Secret of the Alchemist led Jake, Helen and her father Gerald to the discovery of the Stone of Sorrow and a spellbinding and shocking climax in the Underground Palace in Istanbul. Now blasted into beyond by those terrifying events, they each find themselves alone in a strange land with no clear memory of what has gone before. As the fabric of reality begins to unravel and amazing events unfold, each must travel a lone path: yet all roads lead, it seems, to the City of Desolation, where the end-game is the cosmic struggle between Good and Evil." . "City of Desolation"@en . . . . . . . . . "Juvenile works" . . "Juvenile works"@en . "Fiction" . . . . "Fiction"@en . . . . "Fantasy fiction" . . . "Fantasy fiction"@en . . "Jake, Helen and her father each find themselves alone in a strange land with all roads leading to the City of Desolation where there is the struggle between good and evil." . "Jake, Helen and her father each find themselves alone in a strange land with all roads leading to the City of Desolation where there is the struggle between good and evil."@en . . . . "City of desolation" . "City of desolation"@en . . . . . "City of Desolation Library Edition"@en . .