RELEASE DATE:  TBD

TARGET AGE:  MIDDLE GRADE / YA

GENRE: ADVENTURE / FANTASY / SCI-FI FICTION

DESCRIPTION:

After ten dreans of living in the corner of the cargo hold of the Starship Ruby Darton, castaway Bacon Finnegan didn’t think his life could get any worse. However, on his fifteenth birthron, he sneaks into a bootleg poker game and learns of his adoption when his father puts his papers up as a bet with Space Pirates . . . and loses. Determined not to be their slave, Bacon uses an untapped magical power and escapes the storeroom with their treasure and a mysterious, silver watch.

But Bacon’s plan, to gather his possessions and sneak off the ship, is foiled when he runs into four kids playing hide and seek in the cargo hold. In a chain of events, they learn the watch it is a teleportation device, and find themselves surrounded by the Space Pirates. Bacon recklessly uses the watch and transports himself, his four new friends, and his Android IQ32 to a far away planet. On the planet, the mystery of the watch unfolds, and Bacon learns his true identity—he is Merlin’s lost grandson. Sent on a quest to find the seven hidden relics of Merlin, Bacon discovers the meaning of friendship and uncovers his deepest power—the ability to stop time and visit the past, present and future.

Will this newfound gift propel him towards his destiny or destroy all of those around him?