Discover a world of extraordinary beasts and unexpected \n\nheroes in the spectacular sequel from Kiyash Monsef. \n\n \n\nIn this transporting and suspenseful sequel to the New York \n\nTimes bestselling Once There Was, Marjan travels around the \n\nglobe in search of a mythical bird in terrible danger, whose fate \n\ncould determine the future of the world. \n\nMarjan Dastani is successfully leading a double life—for now. Only a few \n\npeople close to her know that when she’s not in school, she travels the \n\nworld taking care of mythical beasts, and she is sent on missions by a \n\nshadowy organization known as the Fells. She’s on one of these jobs in \n\nIstanbul when she gets the chance to connect with her long-lost distant \n\nuncle, the only living relative she has who once did “the work,” like her \n\nfather and now her. When she meets him, though, they’re interrupted by a \n\nthreatening man who’ll stop at nothing to trap and kill the creatures it’s \n\nher duty to care for. In an adventure that takes her across continents and \n\nconnects her with the wildest of mythic beasts around the globe, Marjan \n\nmust interpret the messages the animals are trying to send her and track \n\ndown the fabled Bird of a Thousand Stories before someone with more \n\nnefarious plans finds it. But the more closely she connects with the \n\ncreatures, the more danger she’s in of losing her friendships—and all that \n\ntethers her to the life she’s known.