The Riddles of Epsilon is a young adult fantasy novel by the British author Christine Morton-Shaw. The novel deals with the ideas of good and evil. Kids 12 and over. Hardcover. Like new. 397 pages, spaced for easy reading if your child is learning English or is still a young reader.
Jess has moved to a remote island called Lume off the coast of England. Her parents are restoring an old house, and Jess discovers an abandoned cottage on their property. Inside the cottage Jess encounters an eerie presence -- something like a ghost but suffused with a comforting energy.
She also finds three locked boxes. Inside each she finds antique papers that send her mind spinning.
As Jess unravels the mysteries of Lume, she finds the writings of Sebastian, a boy who lived one hundred years ago and whose life contains unsettling reflections of her own. To her horror, the dangers he unearthed in 1894 now begin to threaten Jess and her family. Something dark has awoken, and Jess doesn't have much time to do something about it.