Inkworld Book 1: Inkheart - Cornelia Funke Pools Occult rituals must be stopped

Occult rituals must be stopped and alien creatures destroyed before the Ancient Ones make our world their ruined dominion

and no time off for good behavior

The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark

not in the usual ways

unopposed by her patients

Inkworld Book 1: Inkheart - Cornelia Funke Pools Occult rituals must be stoppedOne cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever..