The Global Quest Series

Uncover the world one mystery at a time.

The Global Quest Series

Ten artifacts, ten mysteries, one epic adventure across history. Join Amelia and Theo on their journey.

The Compass of Lost Things (Japan)

2. The Pharaoh's Map (Egypt)

3. The Lost City of the Andes (Peru)

Twelve-year-old Amelia Fox has always been the kind of person who asks one question too many, so when she finds a mysterious brass compass hidden among her late grandfather's belongings, she can't simply leave it alone, no matter what his handwritten warning says. The compass doesn't point north. It points toward secrets.

The compass is awake again. This time, it's pointing toward Egypt and a secret buried for four thousand years.

Amelia Fox thought she understood what the compass was for. She was wrong, or rather, she had only just begun.

When the ancient brass instrument pulls her westward toward the desert outside Cairo, Amelia and her best friend Theo Parker follow it to the edge of the Sahara, where a brilliant Egyptologist named Dr. Layla Hassan has spent twenty years quietly tracking the same impossible...

Six months after uncovering a pharaoh's erased history beneath the Egyptian desert, the compass Amelia Fox inherited from her grandfather has gone quiet again, resting on its wooden stand at Foxglove Manor. Then, one ordinary evening, the needle stirs and swings southwest, toward Peru, toward a valley that has kept a five-hundred-year-old secret so completely that most historians assume it never existed at all.