- Genre:fiction
- Sub-genre:Fantasy / Epic
- Language:English
- Series Title:Nyxie Geste
- Series Number:1
- Pages:340
- eBook ISBN:9781667860091
- Paperback ISBN:9781667860084
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Abandoned by her mother as she was just turning eleven, Nyxie was told to never speak again. Sent to her aunt and uncle, she learns to communicate using sign language. On a visit to the zoo, she encounters a young male orangutan who signs to her he needs help—help to escape the zoo! He wants to return to his mother in Sumatra. With the aid of her estranged grandfather, Nyxie and the red ape commences a journey of nine thousand miles battling the sea, pirates and predators.
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On the day of her eleventh birthday, Nyxie's mother made her promise to never speak again. And with that, her mother disappeared from her life.
Handed over to an aunt and uncle she barely knew, Nyxie reluctantly learns to get around not speaking by using American Sign Language. She never imagined that knowing sign language would get her involved in aiding a young male orangutan's escape from the zoo to search for his mother in the faraway rainforest of Sumatra.
Their journey to Indonesia is an epic battle against natural elements and enemies, perhaps supernatural ones as well. Can Nyxie and the young orangutan survive the rage of sea storms, the plundering of pirates, or the hunger of predators? Will they ever discover the birthplace of all orangutans, Cloud Mountain? Or learn the real identity of those who called themselves the Paladins? Tag along with Nyxie and the young orang on their heroic journey of nine thousand miles to find his mother.
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