"I didn't want to wait until I was eighteen to do cool stuff.
I wanted adventures now." --Tiernay West 
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 Move over, Nancy Drew! Get lost, Indiana Jones! Tiernay West is ready to take over. Moving with the stealth of a great cat of the African plains, Tiernay can track a bicycle on dry pavement. She has little use for ballet, fancy dresses, her mother's new (and frankly, very dull) boyfriend, or his nerdy, computer-obsessed son, Kevin. When Tiernay catches wind of possible buried treasure in her own home town, she's on the case. Little does she knows where this will lead her. Is running for her life and scaling cliffs in the middle of the night really part of the plan? As far as Tiernay West is concerned, danger and heart-pounding excitement are totally part of the plan. Tiernay lives for adventure, just like the heroine of her Dad's adventure novels. If she lived with Dad, she'd probably spend her days exploring ancient cities and searching for ancient artifacts. But she doesn't live with her Dad in some exotic locale. She lives with her Mom in the ordinary (meaning boring) town of South Newbury. Ordinary, that is, until she finds an ancient manuscript (okay, a crumbling sheet of notebook paper) in a dusty old tome (well, it is dusty, even if it comes from the library).
And she isn't about to let anyone (meaning her Mom, and also her decidedly un-adventuresome classmates) get in her way.
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As soon as she reads the words written there, she knows her luck is about to change—and that it's time to fufill her destiny as an adventurer at last.