The captivating sequel to Maggie and the Story Shadows sees Maggie face her next challenge as the bag bearer: she must free her mother without totally wiping out the story world and all its inhabitants!

This magical tale is written by Annabelle Oh, who coauthored the first book in the Camp Half-Blood series, From the World of Percy Jackson: The Wild Zone, with #1 New York Times bestselling author Rick Riordan.

Thirteen-year-old Maggie is confident she's a great bag bearer. Afterall, she recently found her mom in the story world—a magical place where every story ever told is real—and she battled the dangerous Reaper who wanted to kidnap her.

So when an all-knowing crow gives Maggie a cryptic warning that she's going to destroy the story world, she isn't too worried. Her main goal is freeing her mom and reuniting her family. What harm could come from that?

And when mysterious ruptures begin tearing apart the story world, Maggie has the perfect solution...even if her friends Petra and Griffin don't agree. She makes a deal with a legendary trickster who promises to help fix the problem, for a price.

Caught between chaos in the story world and real-world detectives inching closer to the truth about her mom's disappearance, Maggie quickly realizes that her decisions have consequences bigger than she ever imagined. Now she has to decide: what does it really mean to be a hero? And can she mend her greatest mistakes before everything unravels?