Publisher's Synopsis
A dark tale for middle-grade readers that begins deep within the core of the Marshlands. Simon Barnacle is a boy in a perfectly balanced harvest world of light and dark. When one day the land begins to rot and the air fills with the wretched scent of death, Simon begins to wonder if he and his mother can survive this horrible plague. It's not long before his mother falls ill. Desperate to find her medicine, Simon ventures to Bog's End with the hope that the rulers of the land will help him, but along the way his plans are foiled when he nearly slips into a strange red light that threatens to transport him deep underground to a cavern of pure darkness and the source of the land's sickness. When Simon discovers that he's also infected, he realizes there's no turning back. He must find a cure before it's too late. Find out what happens in Book One of The Barnacle Chronicles, The Search for Dark Matter.
