Through the Wind Falls: a Tale of Kizmet

Cheyenne, 11, and her brother Austin, 13, are moving. Again. While their mother tries to land an acting job in New York, they are forced to stay with relatives in a staid retirement community. Just when eternal boredom seems certain, a well-meaning elderly neighbor gives them each a bag of Mason jars and points the way to a nearby stream teeming with crawfish and insects. As the two children set out to collect bugs, they stumble upon a mysterious waterfall with the power to transport them to another world, the bizarre and sometimes treacherous realm of Kizmet. Greeted by a new friend, embroiled in an old prophecy, and forced to rely upon their own wits and each other, Cheyenne and Austin must topsy-turtle surf across the Serengeti Sea, spelunk in coruscating caverns of ice, seek out a wayward stag beetle, and duel with the death-dealing Glad Eaters in order to save Kizmet and unlock a family secret.