Penelope

Penelope, the adventurous daughter of Tessello the captain's cat, has seen pretty much all there is of the Old Town History Museum and its sprawling Garden.

She's bored, and decides that today (yes, today!) she's going on an adventure.

The thing is, there is only one friend she can really take; Knuckles Chesterfield (Esq.) — a portly squirrel who hates adventures, danger, unnecessary movement, and pretty much everything except eating, picnics, examining himself in the mirror, writing books about picnics, and of course, fine clothes.

So when Penelope suggests they ask the sinister gnome from the haunted end of the Garden to take them to the sea, you can imagine Knuckles' delight.

As usual, though, Penelope gets her way. Much to the disgust of Knuckles, the pair soon find themselves in the gnome's submarine heading down into an underworld of riddles, dark secrets, pirates, dragons and one-eyed seers in search of the fallen star that will bring light to the Caverns of the gnomes.

Will they find it? Or even get to the sea like the gnome promises? Probably not, since the sinister gnome in question, one Boris Bones, has a very dangerous plan in store for Penelope. Somehow it involves the strange disappearance of Tessello, a complex riddle, and a mystery as ancient as light itself.

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PS - Don't mind the PG-13 rating. This is a very 'G' rated book like all Addison's Tales. The platform's algorithm must have picked up a combination of flagged words and I can't alter it to 'G'. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

PPS - I am thinking of changing the cover for this as it doesn't convey all the action, colour and adventure packed into the tale. What do you think? Should I make it more like the cover for Tom Thorneval? With the characters Penelope, Boris Bones, Tibbens (the miserable) and Knuckles (the actually quite useless) framed with a few extra special characters you'll meet later in the story?