Penelope (ebook)

From the world of Addison's Tales comes the curious account of the fearless cat Penelope and the quite useless Knuckles – an elegant squirrel alarmed by everything except for food and fine clothes. When Knuckles tells Penelope of a reclusive gnome named Boris Bones rumoured to have journeyed as far as the distant sea, Penelope drags her reluctant friend off to find him.

But what they discover in Boris's cottage hidden in the darkest part of the Old Town History Museum Garden is far more than a cantankerous old gnome. Boris believes Penelope to be the key to a riddle that will reveal the location of the final Core – a fallen star expected to bring light to the dying Caverns of the gnomes. Stranger still, the riddle might just involve a Captain's cat named Tessello, who may or may not be Penelope's long-lost father.

Despite Knuckles' warnings that it's all just a ruse to lure them into an oversized gnomic cooking pot, the pair soon find themselves descending in Boris's submarine down into a dark underworld of ancient secrets, pirates, double-crosses, dragons, monsters, strange gnomic inventions and one-eyed seers on a search to solve a mystery as old as light itself.