Five books. Five islands.
One four-hundred-year-old secret.
A Filipino-American family. A golden salakot broken into four pieces and hidden across the Philippines. A middle-grade adventure series where every temple is fictional — and every island, every legend, and every heartbeat of Filipino culture is real.
The books, in order
Each adventure stands alone. Together they follow one trail — from a tin box on Boracay to the drums of Cebu.
Follow the trail across the Philippines
Every setting in the series is a real place. Tap an island to see where each adventure happens — and what’s real about it.
The golden salakot & the four gifts
Hidden during the Spanish suppression of the babaylan, four golden artifacts wait across the islands — each inscribed in ancient baybayin, each meant for one member of one family.
The Golden Salakot
The centerpiece · four pieces, five booksA pre-colonial Philippine salakot of beaten gold, split into four pieces and hidden across the islands during the Spanish suppression of babaylan culture. Its baybayin inscriptions form a single continuous text — a genealogy written so that, one day, the right family would recognize their own names in it.
The Sinag Bracelet
Camryn · Book 2 · PalawanA thin woven band of beaten gold and dark seed-fiber found in the temple vault of the underground river. It shows Camryn what is already there — the truth in people, the nearness of what matters.
The Agila Pendant
Emily · Book 3 · IntramurosA Philippine Eagle carved from volcanic stone, set in gold, found beneath Fort Santiago. Perfect calm in danger, perfect physical instinct — and history felt through the fingertips.
The Amihan Disc
Brandon · Book 4 · BatanesBeaten gold in a ring of black ironwood, carved wind-lines forming a map of the Luzon Strait. It reads pressure, tide, terrain, and the timing of a typhoon’s eye — for the man who was already paying attention.
The Payneta
Celyn · Book 5 · CebuA golden hair comb in a balete-root design — the only gift never hidden, worn hand-to-hand by a keeper line for four hundred years, waiting to be shared. Through it, Celyn hears the anito ancestors as witness.
“Some secrets wait eighty years to be found.”The Whispering Shores of Boracay
Meet the Everharts
A dad who reads terrain, a mom who carries her ancestors, a daughter who charges in headfirst, and a daughter who notices everything.
Brandon Everhart
The one who finds the entrance nobody else foundOutdoorsman, IT professional, quietly unshakeable. Reads terrain the way other people read text, prays before the hard moments, and has been buying gear “on sale” for months before anyone knows it’s needed. Always vindicated.
Celyn Everhart
The keeper of the threadOrganized, precise, color-coded packing lists — and underneath, a direct descendant of the babaylan tradition. Her grandmother’s tin box started everything. She translates the baybayin, carries the ancestral heart of every discovery, and asks the one question that improves the whole plan.
Emily Everhart
First at the bow of every boatTen years old at the series start, fearless, and constitutionally unable to not describe extraordinary things. Moves toward danger, never away from it. Learning Tagalog one enthusiastic phrase at a time.
Camryn Everhart
Always three steps aheadEight years old, quiet, methodical, devastatingly precise. Carries the Ancestor Book — her own notebook of questions, maps, and observations — and notices the important thing three days before anyone else. The moral compass of every confrontation.
Written for two real girls.
Named for a beloved brother.
Jeremy Tinder is a pen name that honors the author’s late brother — so Uncle Jeremy could still be part of the story. The family in these books is real, the trips are real, and the heritage is real.
Begin the adventure
Paperback $12.99 · eBook $4.99 · Free with Kindle Unlimited. Perfect for ages 10–13, classrooms, and family read-alouds.