Diamond Quest

To save his father's life, Nicholas Blue, a 13-year-old California boy, must find two diamonds with magical powers in two weeks. But the diamonds were lost 500 years ago in Italy. Nicholas confides in his new neighbor, Ellie Spark, a mysterious and gifted teenage girl. Ellie takes Nicholas back in time to Italy to trace the secret origin of the missing gems. After learning shocking new truths, they return to the present and battle the evil forces once and for all in a race against time.

Starting at around age 3, Hanna Ireland began daydreaming. By age 5, she began to show an interest in art, creating fantasy stories and images. At age 12, she wrote a short story about a girl who came from the sky to heal and transform a troubled prince her age by talking and playing with him. She also created drawings and paintings to illustrate her story.