The Secrets of Sevenoakes

by Mack Shelton, Dustin Reed, Diana Savu (Illustrator)

Overview

Kyle Yates, a 14-year-old orphan, is adopted by Diabolos Je Rouge, to live in the sprawling Sevenoakes Manor. Since he is the newest resident of the manor, he must participate in a seven-year ritual known as The Festival. Je Rouge, takes Kyle on a tour of the manor and its grounds. Statues of young boys and girls, each in different period clothing, decorate the manor. The next morning The Festival begins. The object of The Festival is to win ten tasks and receive ten keys. At the end of the contest, Kyle must make a potion that will reveal the correct key. Once found, the statues come to life, and the past participants will be freed to return back to their own time. But should Kyle fail, he, too, will become imprisoned as a stone statue until another challenger arrives to free him. The last participant to free the participants, Melvin Horton, won The Festival but failed to free one girl. Kyle is helped by two dwarfs, Enov and Gladys, and the ghosts of the past participants who tell of the young lady kept in glass from the first Festival of other two-hundred years ago. Now Kyle's determination is to rescue the young girl and free the past participants. But the challenges stand in his way: ghosts, attacked by flying objects, evil gargoyles, a lake monster, flying daggers, and the constant nagging advice by others to quit.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185767672
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	07/26/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	238 KB

About the Author

Mack Shelton began writing while serving in the US Navy. Since then he has worked on two student newspapers, The Shawnee Sentinel, and The University Chronicle, both while working on his B.A. in History at Shawnee State University, and worked as a photographer for the Portsmouth Daily Times in Portsmouth, Ohio. He published one book, "Circles of Management," (Publish America - 2004), and wrote two screenplays, "Wardenclyffe: The Nikola Tesla Story," and "Painful Hearts" with Dustin Reed.

Dustin Reed, worked with Mack on "Painful Hearts," as well as other short scripts. Reed came up with the idea of a young adult book and cowrote Secrets of Sevenoakes, and provided the perfect "acid test" and "litmus paper" concerning ideas and scene work. When he's not working, he enjoys sports and the company of this two children.