Dogelonian

He built something nobody could edit. Nobody can say where he came from.

On the planet Dogelone, a boy lives through an eighty-eight day ash storm, finds a very small dog, and watches his father's lifetime of savings turn into a sack of potatoes. Years later he builds a money that nobody can edit, signs it with a name that is not his, and vanishes.

Now a masked hero called the Dogelonian turns up wherever trust is breaking. A polite Magister wants a throne for money. A tireless auditor follows twelve small clues. And the more the planet asks where Noel Dusk came from, and where his dog did, the less anyone can say.

Along the way you will meet a fireplace that cannot lie, a lantern-tailed creature who glows when someone tells the truth, a house of lamps for children nobody counted, a porch where nobody is finished, and a stretch of high country where small teal ships keep landing in the dark.

DOGELONIAN is the first book of a series: an illustrated science-fiction fable with a mystery at its heart. It is funny, warm and gently suspenseful, with about 40 original illustrations, a Suspicion Meter that climbs all the way to 99 percent while the proof stays at zero, and a last act that crosses the dark between two worlds. Some doors are left open for Book Two.

A superhero, a super dog, and a mystery wrapped in dusk: part fable, part mystery, and a love letter to everyone who ever read the last page of the receipt.