While on board the Expedient, Doug and Becca MacKenzie stumble across an amazing secret. What unfolds is a story of two young people caught up in an adventure and a story of an ancient order created to protect the world from evil. This work is set in Shanghai, in 1920.

Battered by a typhoon, the Expedient is shipwrecked on a volcanic island. Doug and Becca MacKenzie's search for their missing parents must wait; but what part did the mysterious Guild play in their disappearance? And what is their uncle searching for? Will the strange riddle Doug and Becca unearth be the key to the dark secrets of the Guild?

Becca and Doug back at their old family home in Lucknow, India, where they discover research papers containing clues to their missing parents' expedition route and to the location of Ur-Can - the fabled Storm City. Soon they are on a perilous journey to the Takla Makan desert, racing against the enemy by steam train, riverboat, and airship.

Part of The Guild Trilogy , this title finds Becca and Doug back at their old family home in Lucknow, India, where they discover research papers containing clues to their missing parents' expedition route and to the location of Ur-Can - the fabled Storm City.

Celebes Sea, May 1920: Battered by a typhoon, the Expedient is shipwrecked on a volcanic island. No radio, no rescue, no escape. Doug and Becca MacKenzie's search for their missing parents must wait, but what part did the mysterious Guild play in their disappearance? And what is their uncle, Captain MacKenzie, really searching for?

First in a groundbreaking trilogy, this is no ordinary tale, no ordinary book. Shanghai, 1920. While on board the Expedient , Doug and Becca MacKenzie stumble across an amazing secret.

What's the story? Shanghai, 1920. Doug and Becca Mackenzie's parents have been missing for over a year when they are taken to live onboard their uncle's ship, the Expedient, bound for a research expedition to the South China Sea. Doug is thrilled to have the opportunity to investigate the ship's engines and crankshafts, but the pair soon realise that there is much more going on than first meets .