The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding
β Scribed by Alexandra Bracken
- Publisher
- Disney Book Group
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 573 KB
- Series
- Prosper Redding 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1484798511
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Prosperity Redding is the only unexceptional member of his very successful familyΓ―ΒΏΒ½that is, until he discovers a demon living inside him. Turns out, Prosper's great-great-great-great-great-something grandfather madeΓ―ΒΏΒ½and then brokeΓ―ΒΏΒ½a contract with a malefactor, a demon who exchanges fortune for eternal servitude. Now Alastor, the malefactor, has reawakened and is intent on destroying the Redding fortune, unless they can kill him in the body he inhabitsΓ―ΒΏΒ½which, oh, wait, that's Prosper, and why is his grandmother coming at him with a silver blade? In danger from both the demon trying to take over his soul and the family that would rather protect their fortune than their own kin, Prosper narrowly escapes with the help of his long lost Uncle Barnabas and Barnabas's daughter, Nell, a witch in training. According to Barnabas and Nell, they have only days to break the family curse and find a way to banish Alastor back to the demon realm. Until then, Prosper has to deal with...
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