This series follows the adventures of a young girl with an extraordinary gift for reading and a love for words in a land where books and stories are forbidden. Alongside her loyal goose and a mysterious companion, she embarks on a perilous journey filled with intrigue, smugglers, and spies. Her wit and ability to uncover the truth hidden in words are key to surviving in a dangerous world of power players. It's a tale of knowledge's power and courage against oppression.
Everyone knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad … In a land where books are considered dangerous, Mosca Mye, an orphan with an all-consuming hunger for words, and her loyal companion (a large homicidal goose) are about to become the unlikely heroes of a revolution …
Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are in trouble again. Escaping disaster by the skin of their teeth, they find refuge in Toll, the strange gateway town where visitors may neither enter nor leave without paying a price, and as past deeds catch up with them and old enemies appear, it looks as if this time there's no way out. Ages 10+.