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Hugo's Lively Distractions Traveling
Amusement cart rolls into Kingsbridge, the Royal City. The cart carries
a traveling circus and fourteen year old Dessa Redd is the acrobat. Her
good friend, Topper, a short, blue-skinned elf-like creature, is
obsessed with robbing the good Queen of some of her wealth that she
keeps locked up in one of the towers. Dessa's other friend is a large,
purple-skinned one-headed ettin named Fisk.
Dessa is haunted by her memories of when her
parents were killed and her brother taken from her by an evil man half
of her life ago. She searches for this evil man in every town the circus
visits hoping to someday be reunited with her brother.
While up on the high wire, Dessa keeps
the crowd distracted while Topper picks the audiences' pockets. But when Dessa spies a man that looks like the
guy who took her brother, she
jumps down to the ground and confronts him, only to realize it is not
him. Meanwhile, with no one to distract the audience, Topper is
discovered trying to open a man's money pouch. Hugo, the circus leader,
tells Dessa that she must come up with a way to feed the circus
performers since Topper wasn't able to steal any money.
That evening, while wandering the
streets trying to figure out a way to get some money, Dessa finds Fisk
leaning against a building waiting for Topper. Topper has entered the
tower through the small drain, which Fisk would never be able to fit
through. When Topper lowers a rope to Fisk through an open window above, Dessa decides to
join her two friend to keep them from doing anything really stupid,
well, anything more stupid than robbing the Queen.
The Queen's treasury is well protected
with many traps,
but the three friends persist and finally make their way to the
treasury, which is overflowing with coins and other precious items.
Unfortunately for them, Captain Drake of the palace guards, notices
Topper burning torch through a window in the tower and decides to investigate. What Dessa, Topper and Fisk do not realize is that the penalty for stealing
from the Queen is death. To make matters worse, once they are captured
by Captain Drake, Dessa realizes that the Queen's advisor is the man she has been
searching for for half of her life, and now it is too late to do
anything about it.
Tower of Treasure
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fantasy graphic novel is the first book in the Three Thieves series by
and is written and drawn by Scott Chantler. This book is intended for
Young Readers ages 8 and up. |
