Playhouse of Phym
Patrick H.T. Doyle
Paperback
(Independently published, Oct. 9, 2019)
Charging into the fourth week of their summer long adventure around the globe, in an airplane on fire, Audrey and Garrett figured at this point they had seen and experienced everything weird and wondrous imaginable, but a trip to a house Grandpa Edgar grew up in — a Victorian mansion set atop the ruins of a Mayan temple deep in the rainforest of Belize — wakes them up to the fact the world hides many more shocks and surprises in the deep, dark shadows. Ghosts, shadow warriors and even Bigfoot monsters were simply introductions to what most would consider fables and folklore. The Playhouse of Phym will require them to stretch their imaginations well beyond fairy tales while overcoming a physical challenge, which strikes during the night of the anniversary when a spell was cast on the playhouse one hundred years ago.This is an adventure where the puzzles and traps will do more than put their lives at risk. If they fail to survive all nine levels of the underworld, while being pursued by a colossal hunter, they will be claimed by the rainforest, the same way it did the Maya and their great cities in the past. Their only hope is that Aunt Phym’s stories about helpful fairies were true and there’s still some magic left in the temple stones.