All rights reserved.| Synopsis On a visit to a remote European kingdom in 1872, a fearless sixteen-year-old orphan and her guardian research an ancient legend and become enmeshed in a dangerous rebellion. Vesper Holly, a 16-year-old orphan from Philadelphia, sets off to find a lost treasure in Illyria, a small nation in the Adriatic. Once there, however, she finds the country on the brink of a civil war, and gets herself caught in the middle of a fierce struggle between Illyria's rebel forces and their Zentan rulers. Other titles about this intrepid orphan are "The El Dorado Adventure", "The Drackenberg Adventure", "The Jedera Adventure" and "The Philadelphia Adventure".
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