The Disappearance of Emily: Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic Series Book 2 by Elizabeth Pantley

Author:Elizabeth Pantley [Pantley, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Better Beginnings, Inc
Published: 2021-03-11T22:00:00+00:00

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The splashed tea and crumpled cookie were totally forgotten while I reached up and took down the book entitled Gladstone. The full title on the cover was Gladstone: Past, Present, and Myths. There was a stamped banner across the cover that said: Destroy Copy. I sat on the cushioned seat and warily opened the book.

The inside cover was a map! It too carried the Destroy Copy stamp, but I could see enough through the words. The map showed the cluster of nearly a hundred islands, just as I had seen on the enchanted globe in the library. I located the crescent-shaped island labeled Destiny Falls, and the puzzle-piece island across from it labeled Gladstone. The map on the adjacent page was of Gladstone alone. It showed a ferry landing facing directly across from Destiny Falls’ ferry landing. There was topography that showed lakes, rivers, and mountains, but not much else was called out on the map.

Neither Oliva nor Edna would discuss Gladstone. Why were they hiding something? Because here it was, big as life on the pages of this book, and it was located directly across from Destiny Falls. Certainly, they would know more about the island and why it was forbidden to travel there.

I poured myself a fresh cup of cookie-free tea and settled in to read through the book.

Chapter One started with another map. This one showed the crescent-shaped island of Destiny Falls and the opposite-shaped island of Gladstone pushed together to form one larger island. It was labeled in the corner: United States Naval Observatory, Circa 1800.

That seemed very odd. I Googled How many years does it take for an island to divide? That brought no matches, so I changed the word from island to continent. There were more matches, and I couldn’t find an exact answer, except that it seemed to take millions of years for the movement of tectonic plates that could separate a land mass.

The book somewhat answered my question in the next section, when it referred to ‘The Great Divide’:

It has always been assumed that Destiny Falls and Gladstone were at one time joined as one larger island because of the precisely matching coastlines. A Naval Observatory map discovered in the early 1900s appeared to confirm this. The map showed a date stamp of ‘Circa 1800,’ but it was unclear if the map was found then or created at that time. There was no background information to clarify when The Great Divide of the two islands occurred.

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