DJ MacDonald, age fourteen, is tormented by vivid visions of monstrous creatures guarding a prisoner in a deep ocean chasm. He returns to his roots in the Philippines where he leads a Malipayon warrior rescue mission with the aid of a magic book. Faith, honor and magic are put to the test as they overcome deadly obstacles and battle fierce predators in a race against time to complete their mission

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A strong sulfurous odor began to engulf them. Their trek led past a naked field of basalt lava with cinder cones, burping mud pots, bubbling thermal pools and hissing fumaroles that drenched them in hot vapor. A geyser suddenly erupted beside them, a phenomenon that occurs when a huge mass of underground magma heats water to steam which presses to the surface … no telling what was going on below