**Get ready for more adventures with Araminta, the star of a delightfully spookie chapter book series from Angie Sage, author of the* ** **New York Times*** **bestselling Septimus Heap series!** Sir Horace is about to turn five hundred years old! Araminta and Wanda need to find him the perfect gift. Araminta finds an ancient sword in a grotto hidden under her haunted house—and it should be a cinch to get it. But she wasn’t planning on the nasty surprise of a portcullis-trap and a rising tide in the grotto. Will Araminta and Wanda make it to Sir Horace’s birthday party?