The adventure of a twelve year's first ocean kayaking trip with his parents to Ireland's Eye. The small island off the coast of Newfoundland is the eastern-most settlement in Canada. Or it was. It is now hauntingly empty, a ghost town hanging onto the edge of the unforgiving Atlantic.

Just when Dylan Maples is settling down after last summer's trip to Ireland's Eye, the parental units are at it again—planning another family adventure. Only this time, it's not a summer vacation, but an extended trip way up north to Cobalt, Ontario, in the middle of a bitter winter. Once a thriving silver mining community, all that's left of the town's rich history are the long abandoned mines. A Toronto millionaire has hired Dylan's dad to retrieve a fortune in silver allegedly stolen from his grandfather back in the early part of the twentieth century. But was the fortune really stolen? And if so, where has it been hidden? The answers to these questions reside with one man—Theobald T. Larocque, Cobalt's oldest citizen. But no one has seen him in years. And no one seems at all eager to help Dylan's dad locate him—except, of course, his devoted son Dylan, and Dylan's newfound friend and accomplice, Wynona Dixon.

The scariest Dylan Maples adventure yet, in which Dylan, his buddies and a new character named Dorothy Osborne fear that the bizarre, seven-foot, escaped killer “The Reptile” is on their trail while they search for dinosaur fossils in the eerie badlands of Alberta.

After his harrowing encounter with “The Reptile,” Dylan travels to British Columbia with his parents and finds himself under the spell of an even more frightening monster – the legendary sasquatch. In this excerpt his new friend Alice is along for the ride.