Hong Yi is a teenager in China who believes she is destined for greatness, but her Asian culture frowns upon females doing anything other than being seen and not heard. When an odd birthmark below Hong's rib cage begins to agitate her, her father reveals a secret that will give her the opportunity to test her greatness: Hong is a guardian of a legend so frightening that if the world ever found out, a terrible panic would spread like a tidal wave around the globe.

Almost thirteen years old, Douglas McClowski III lives in North Carolina and is a normal kid with some fairly normal friends....

Hong Yi is a teenager in China who believes she is destined for greatness, but her Asian culture frowns upon females doing anything other than being seen and not heard. When an odd birthmark below Hong's rib cage begins to agitate her, her father reveals a secret that will give her the opportunity to test her greatness: Hong is a guardian of a legend so frightening that if the world ever found out, a terrible panic would spread like a tidal wave around the globe.

Almost thirteen years old, Douglas McClowski III lives in North Carolina and is a normal kid with some fairly normal friends....