After ruining his sister's chance to move on in the afterlife, Alex Scire vows to find another one of the Maql - alien objects of immense power. But all he has to aid him is his dad's magical ankh and a mysterious dragon's vague directions to the Fountain of Youth. He sets out on the dangerous quest alone and is shocked when his Druid friends, Jane and Diana, follow him onto a ghost ship, where they convince the pirate captain to help them. To succeed,...