She meets with her grandmother and a spell caster. Once they arrive at Elvesden Manner, a creepy mansion that her Grandmother lives in, Warwick the groundskeeper lets them inside. Tanya does not like this idea at first and her mom and Tanya have lots of arguments about it. Then later on, Tanya’s mom decides to send Tanya to her Grandma’s house for the rest of the summer. They begin to taunt Tanya and she can’t get their voices out of her head. She did not know this was a gift she held. She has always been able to see fairies, but she thought this was normal. Three fairies named Raven, Mizhog and Gredin. She is in her room on a hot summer day when three unexpected characters come in through her window. Her parents are divorced and she hasn’t seen her Dad in 10 years. The book starts out with Tanya at her moms house. In the book 13 Treasures, the protagonist, Tanya, goes on a wild hunt to uncover secret after secret about her family that she never saw coming.
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