Book Author & Illustrator Kenneth Chapman
Rights Available: World excl. NZ
After the death of a mysterious aunt she never knew existed, Lonasei and her family — her sister Eva Grace and their mother Aria — move back into Aria’s childhood home: a large, creepy estate known as Origin Grove.
While exploring the many rooms and levels of her new home, Lonasei discovers that late at night she has the ability to step inside her late aunt’s paintings, which adorn the walls of the house. The paintings all evoke memories from the past. Through the paintings, Lonasei discovers her mother had another sister, one she’s never spoken about, who went missing when she was a child.
While searching the basement for clues, Lonasei finds herself stepping through a portal into an alternate reality. A world that looks so much like her own. A world with another Lonasei and another Eva Grace!
About the Author
Kenneth Chapman is the eighth child in a big Sāmoan family of ten. While he’s explored many different things including making films, baking cookies, running ultra marathons and coaching basketball, teaching in classrooms as well as at the piano, the one thing he’s never stopped doing is writing stories. This is his first book.
Publisher
Bateman Books
Extent
224pp
Format
198 x 129mm
Binding
Paperback
Category
Children’s
Genre
Middle Grade
Publication Date
May 2026
Rights Available:
World excl. NZ
Rights Agents:
World
Paul Bateman, David Bateman Ltd
bateman@bateman.co.nz
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