Cirrus@Austlit

Twelve year old Kate Dawson is unhappy at home. Her widowed mother has remarried and Kate has a stepfather and a six year old half-sister, Emma, who is nothing but a pest. She knows the resentment she feels towards Emma and her stepfather is making her mum unhappy, but Kate is confused by the deep feelings of guilt and jealousy that plague her.

One morning, Emma disappears down a mystical looking well. Irritated but worried, Kate follows and the two girls are thrust into the tunnels of Miu, an unknown place built within the lava tunnels of an extinct volcano. They meet a young Miuan princess and her guard, who are on the run, and the girls are instantly swept into a danger that will test their skills, their friendship and their love.

Source: Author's Blurb

This is the second book in The Land of Miu series. Princess Alara and her guard-in-training, Siptah, have done something unthinkable. By accident, they activated the volcano deep below the tunnels in which they live. If they can't stop the volcano from erupting the whole of Miu will be lost. But that isn't the only problem they have, their fathers are missing and time is running out, so it's up to them to fix things by themselves. A clue found in the king's chamber suggests their human friends, Kate and Emma, must come back to Manu to help them. Can the group of friends overcome their fears and frustrations and solve an ancient riddle in time to save the Land of Miu?

Source: Author's Blurb

'Join Princess Alara, her guard-in-training Siptah, and their two human friends, Kate and Emma, on their last adventure together.

'When Princess Alara is informed Manu has been struck by a deadly fever, she is told to find Aker, who can provide an antidote. But when they arrive in Bakhu they are told Aker is nothing but a children’s story, a myth, and are turned away. Alara believes differently and she and her friends immediately set out on a journey filled with peril to find the Lion Gods, the Chosen One, and the cure.'

(Source: publisher's blurb)