The Everhart family is back — and this time, the adventure goes underground.
When the National Museum of the Philippines discovers a hidden passage in the babaylan notebook — a reference to a sacred temple buried inside the legendary Puerto Princesa Underground River — the Everharts pack their bags for Palawan. One of the natural wonders of the world awaits, along with ancient limestone caves, a four-hundred-year-old mystery, and a dangerous woman who wants what the temple holds.
But the greatest discovery belongs to eight-year-old Camryn — quiet, precise, and always three steps ahead. Deep inside the cave, something ancient has been waiting for exactly her.
The Forgotten Temple of Palawan is a story about history hidden in the dark, the courage it takes to bring it into the light, and a family that is stronger — and stranger — than any of them expected.
Inside this adventure
The discovery
A pre-colonial babaylan temple sealed inside the cave system for 400 years — and the Sinag Bracelet, a woven band of beaten gold that waits for the quiet one.
Camryn’s gift
“She who sees what is hidden.” The bracelet shows Camryn what is already there: the truth inside people, and the nearness of things that matter.
What readers meet
The emerald underground river, cathedral caverns of limestone, a Batak elder’s prophecy, and an antiquities dealer who once loved history the right way.
The real Puerto Princesa Underground River
The Puerto Princesa Subterranean River in Palawan is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was named one of the New7Wonders of Nature. The navigable underground river runs more than eight kilometers beneath a limestone karst mountain before flowing directly into the sea. Its cathedral-sized chambers, ancient rock formations, and wheeling swallows are all real — the perfect place to hide a temple that history forgot.