THE FINAL GAMBIT

In the thrilling conclusion to Christopher Healy's funny, action-packed, acclaimed alt-history adventure, Molly, Emmett, and their friends must escape federal agents and foil a plot that endangers the presidential election.

It is 1884, and Molly and Cassandra Pepper, Emmett Lee, and Emmett's long-lost father are sailing back to New York following their death-defying adventure in Antarctica. Having discovered a subterranean world at the South Pole while saving the world from certain doom once again, surely their accomplishments will finally earn them the recognition they deserve.

Unless, of course... well, you know by now.

And so do the Peppers and Lees. They're used to having their deeds covered up by the government in order to protect powerful men, and frankly, they're sick of it. Knowing that federal agents will be waiting to arrest them when they disembark in New York, they come up with a daring plan to get off their ship and make it back to the States on their own terms. But when that doesn't go as planned, they decide that maybe it's best to go into hiding and accept that, perhaps, the forces aligned against them are just too great.

But they can't hide for long. Soon, they discover a plot against inventor Thomas Edison that only they can stop. It'll be up to them to decide whether to come out of hiding, make the perilous journey to Washington, D.C., and do the right thing one last time. Even if it means risking everything they have left.

Christopher Healy is the author of The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, as well as its two sequels, The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle and The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw. Before becoming a writer, he worked as an actor, an ad copywriter, a toy store display designer, a fact-checker, a dishwasher, a journalist, a costume shop clothing stitcher, a children's entertainment reviewer, and a haunted house zombie. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two children, and a dog named Duncan.