Around Curiosity's Edge

A hidden world waits, a dark society schemes, and a ship sails to protect that which cannot be lost.Salem Swan knows none of this as he arrives in Easterly. He knows only that he misses his recently deceased mother, that his new guardian, his uncle Ulysses is unique, and that the boat which will now be his home is unlike anything he has ever seen.Fearful of this new reality, Salem starts to ask questions that uncover the truth about his distant uncle, his long-gone father, and the true nature of the ship. The answers lead him into a place of myth and legend, where fantastic creatures wage an ages-old war with a radical group bent on eliminating them forever.Rich with mythology from around the world, Hidden Meridians is the first installment of a fantasy series that takes readers into that place that is just around Curiosity's edge.

A DARK ARMY RISES,A NEW SHIP SAILS THE SEAS,AND OLD ONES, LONG SILENT,ARE SUMMONED FORTH TO LEAD.Whereas only a few months earlier he would not have believed any of it, Salem Swan now finds himself faced with sinister enemies and, equally surreal, surrounded by close friends. He has gained powers as a mythlinguist, and with it a responsibility to reunite the world of humans with the world of myth, known as the Fringe.With his uncle Ulysses and Captain Fern taken prisoner by a growing Regulat force, it's up to Salem and the crew to seek help in old allies. This takes them to the heart of the Amazonian rainforest, where a city concealed in waterfalls tests the measure of their resolve.Meanwhile Regulat forces conspire to eliminate fringers of the World Beneath and bear down on a sacred space with a terrible force that knows no mercy.The world is changing faster than anyone realizes, and salvaging its best parts now rests in the hands of three teenagers and a mythical crew who cannot stand to see it lost.

"With Sacred Skies, Hostetler brings his trilogy to a close, but the close isn't an end. It's a birth to readers' imaginations for years to come." -Brendan Walsh, award-winning author of The Century's ScribeSalem Swan can barely recognize himself as the same boy who a year and half ago stepped onto the strange and mysterious ship called Curiosity. He's found a family in a crew who used to be strangers, love in places he never before thought to look, and most of all a purpose in becoming the champion of a mythical world called the Fringe which is on the verge of disappearing.But the evil spreading through the world has grown more powerful in recent months. Left unchecked, the Regulat will surely find a way to eliminate the peaceful world Salem and the crew are fighting to protect.New enemies, allies, powers, and realizations drive Salem, Juniper, and Zee to their extreme limits. In the fastest-paced adventure they've undertaken yet, they will ascend into the sacred Himalayan mountains in search of a lost creature, speak with ghosts as real as living people, and rally a global army of diversity against the forces seeking to destroy them. All as the Fringe and Commons grow ever closer towards either colliding or separating from each other forever.