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The first adventure
Spice and the Lost Endings
Someone has taken the endings. Now the stories can’t stop—and one little kitten can’t get home.
Spice has a rule about strange things: look first, leap second. Unfortunately, the mysterious book beneath the kitchen table has other plans.
One flutter of its pages sends her tumbling into a magical world where stories have lost their endings. A teapot gallops through the aisles, characters wander into the wrong tales, and every missing final page makes the tangle worse.
With Pippa, a butterfly wearing enormous spectacles, Spice follows clues through unexpected doors and meets creatures whose stories need help. But who has taken the endings—and why?
To unravel the mystery, this curious calico kitten will need more than her magical bell. She’ll need courage, kindness, and a willingness to ask difficult questions. Because finding the lost pages may be the only way to find her way home.
Spice and the Lost Endings is the first book in Grace Moon Star’s Once Upon a Kitten series—a whimsical children’s fantasy adventure filled with humor, friendship, and thoughtful choices.
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From the opening chapter
A Book That Answered Back
Spice heard the bell before she found the book.
Until that afternoon, the most mysterious thing in her kitchen had been a cupboard that smelled of cinnamon even when there was no cinnamon inside. Spice had investigated it many times. She had found only a spoon and some dust. She had decided that mysteries did not always owe her an answer.
That was why the sound of her bell surprised her. Bells were supposed to ring for a reason.
It was a tiny ting, the sort of sound her collar made when she jumped onto the windowsill. But Spice was lying quite still, watching rain race down the kitchen window. Her bell had not moved.
Ting.
Spice sat up. She was a calico kitten with bright blue eyes and a gold star-shaped bell on her collar. She had never known it to ring by itself.
Under the kitchen table sat a book.
Spice had seen books before. Some were heavy enough to hold open a door. Some had pictures of birds that made her want to pounce. Once she had fallen asleep on a cookbook and woken up with a recipe printed on her cheek. This book was different. It seemed to be waiting for her to notice it.
There had been no book there a moment ago. Spice was certain. She had inspected the space under the table earlier, in case a crumb had fallen at breakfast. She had found three crumbs and no books.
This one had a midnight-blue cover. Silver stars moved across it so slowly that Spice thought at first they were only catching the light. Then one of the stars swam behind another.
Spice touched the cover with one paw.
Ting.
“That's interesting,” she said.
The book sprang open. Every page was blank.
“That's less interesting.”
Words appeared on the first page, one after another, as though an invisible paw were writing them.
PLEASE BE QUIET. THE STORIES ARE THINKING.
Spice looked around the empty kitchen. “Sorry,” she whispered.
The words vanished. New ones took their place.
THAT'S BETTER. COME IN.
“Into what?” Spice asked.
She tried turning to the next page. It was blank too, but its paper felt warm. There were no pictures, maps, or instructions. She considered closing the book and returning to the windowsill. Then the star on her bell flashed, and the moving stars on the cover gathered around it like curious fish.
Spice had a rule about strange things: look first, leap second. Unfortunately, the book appeared to have a different rule.
The page rose from the book like a wave. Spice sprang backward, but the paper followed her, curling gently around her paws. It smelled of dust, rain, and something delicious she could not name.
“Wait! I haven't—”
The kitchen disappeared.
The adventure continues in Spice and the Lost Endings.
Coming soon · By Grace Moon Star
