The Chess Queen Enigma
And then she mouthed a word at me — an unmistakable word that told me everything I needed to know. “Checkmate.”
Evaline Stoker & Mina Holmes have reluctantly agreed to act as social
chaperones and undercover bodyguards for Princess Lurelia of Betrovia,
who has arrived in London to deliver a letter that details the secret
location of an ancient chess queen that’s been missing for centuries.
But when the letter — which will heal a centuries-old rift between England and the Betrovians — is stolen out from under Evaline and Mina’s watchful eyes, the two girls are forced into a high-stakes race to ensure they
find the chess queen before anyone else does…including their foe, the
Ankh. For the chess queen is not only a historic symbol of a woman’s
political power, but it has literal power as well — the queen will unlock
the chessboard, revealing both treasures and ancient secrets the Ankh
would kill to possess. It will take Mina’s smarts and Evaline’s strength to beat the thief and untangle this mystery before it is too late.
Colleen Gleason
Colleen Gleason is an American writer. She lives near Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband and children. She has a degree in English and a MBA from the University of Michigan. She started writing in primary school and wrote nine complete stories before selling the first book of her The Gardella Vampire Chronicles series to a division of Penguin Books, which published it in January 2007.
Stoker & Holmes
Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you’re the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood, so to speak...
Stoker & Holmes consists of four books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
