When a magician's son disappears, a madcap mystery sets off a parallel pair of perilous quests in this beloved fantasy adventure series.
The Good Magician Humfrey's son Hugo has vanished from his cellar. And what's worse, there's a murdered man left in his place. With Humphrey's book of answers scrambled, it's a mystery that can only be solved by... a thirteen-year-old girl named Debra.
Hailing from Mundania, Debra was hoping to lift an obnoxious curse on her name. But thanks to the strange ways of Xanth-and Hugo's gorgon mother-she is now a flying centaur embarking on an incredible misadventure through astonishing locales that reach back to the origins of time itself.