At the beginning of a long, hot summer, an extraordinary boy from an ordinary town finds himself in the middle of an adventure that could make an adventurer out of anyone. Jeremy Cain is a ten-year-old boy with nothing to do one summer day, until a search for a legendary figurine jump-starts his imagination and leads him on a quest to solve an old mystery that just might be true. What is the crystal dog? And what of the legend and the people who have searched before? Jeremy is about to find out