Megan's first adventure tells how Megan and May find the medallion and the crown device and then figure out how to make the crown device work.
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Here is Chapter 1 again with Laura as Megan Martin. Please listen to both and tell us which one you prefer. If this goes well we intend to make a version of this novel with Laura, the girl on the cover of the novels, as Megan Martin and Amber as May. It is very time consuming but I think in the end will be well worth the effort. If it goes well enough we may do audio versions of each of the novels.
Grandpa Fred was an archeologist like his father before him. Sometimes they would bring things home with them from the dig sites. Three things they brought back hold a mystery greater than time could tell and they both died trying to solve the mystery of the Medallion. Before Fred died he wrote a letter to his granddaughter Megan and hid it inside an old jewelry box along with the golden Medallion. The letter explains to Megan what happened and asks her to continue to try to solve the mystery. The adventure begins with Megan and her best friend May searching the farm for clues that will help them on their quest for knowledge.
Not all is well on the Martin farm though because Megan's grandmother Martha is in serious debt and about to lose the farm. Will Megan and May solve the mystery before it's too late?
Megan and May venture to the old log house at the south edge of the south 40 acres on Martha's farm. It is a place they were told not to go, but they went anyway.
You can now listen to the author, Bryon Smith, read this excerpt in MP3 audio format.
Excerpt
"Aaaah-Choo!" May sneezed, waking Megan from her trance. "Oh, this place is, uh, really old and smelly and dusty and, look I found another room back here."
Megan turned to see what May was looking at when a board May was standing on cracked and broke catching May's leg between the broken boards. Frantically, she tried to pull her foot free of the boards but the harder she pulled the tighter the boards cut into her ankle.
"Megan, help me!" she pleaded as Megan ran to her assistance. May was pulling and struggling as hard as she could to pull her leg free from between the broken boards.
"I don't like this place! I want to leave now!" May cried as Megan worked with her leg, trying to free her friend.
"Don't pull! I can't get your foot out if you pull like that," Megan told her.
"Oh, I just know there are snakes and wild animals and SPIDERS and God knows what under this house!" May cried and shook with fear. "I just know they are going to bite me! I just know it!"
"Be still. There's nothing under this house that could stand the taste of you," Megan said jokingly, trying to repress a giggle. "Lions and Tigers and Bears OH MY!"
"Stop it! This isn't funny," May responded, wishing she could find the humor that her friend could see in all this.
Megan pushed May's leg down again and one side of the old board broke off and fell beneath the house allowing May's leg to pull free.
"There, see that wasn't such a big deal, was it?" Megan told May.
"Big deal, big deal, right," May said as she examined the scratches on her ankle, then cautiously leaned over to peer into the hole under the house where the broken board had fallen.
"See any monsters under there?" Megan asked, smiling as she walked into the third room of the house.
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Megan turned and started through the door back into the bedroom when suddenly she was struck by that cold feeling of something literally passing through her. "Oh, there it is again." Once again goose bumps rose up on her arms.
"There is what again?" May asked, but then at that moment the cold presence passed through her as well. "What was that?" she asked in surprise as goose bumps rose up on her arms as well.
Both girls stopped, frozen in the old bedroom, as a ghostly mist moved through the room to a baby bed at the foot of the big bed and then vanished from sight. At the foot of the old big bed was now a baby bed that had not been there before. The girls looked at each other, both having their arms crossed and rubbing their arms for warmth, and then looked back at the baby bed.
"That wasn't there before," Megan stated. "I know that wasn't there when we came into the house."
The two girls looked at each other again with surprise because both of them knew there was nothing in that bedroom except the main bed. And when they looked back the baby bed was gone again.
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Find out what happens to Megan and May in this exciting adventure novel.
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When this novel was written it was the beginning of the entire series. Bryon was working two jobs and wasn't a seasoned author. Ideas were being thought up as the first story was being written. Later the author decided he didn't like some of his ideas and changed them in following novels. You can read about some of these things in the secrets page. Though the basic story concept is very good you will find a number of inadequacies in his first work. Please do not allow this to affect your enjoyment of the story.
Currently this book is being rewritten and changes are being made to correct certain problems and details of the story, other things are being added to enhance the story. When Bryon was writing Legacy of the Watchers he created the origin of the crown and medallion. Now the mystery has an answer and the girls are going to find quite a few more clues than they found in the original The Medallion Mystery novel.
The new revised The Medallion Mystery is more exciting, scarier, and much more informative than the first one that is now in print. We hope it won't take YEARS to find a new publisher. We also expect the name of the series and individual novels may also be changed.
Some of the changes have been listed on the main books page.
In the original we see Megan returns to the farm at the age of 15. Her grandfather died 5 years before and her grandmother sold the pony that grandpa Fred had given to Megan when she was 10. In the rewrite the novel starts out with Megan at 12 years old and grandpa Fred giving her the pony she named Sparky. Grandpa Fred tells Megan about her great grandpa Henry and how he said he found a transport machine that sent him and his brother to the moon and back. He brought things back from the moon that he hid around on the farm.
In the rewrite we find out what happened that turned grandma Martha against Megan having a pony. This causes Martha to have Megan sent back to her home in the city. Before she leaves grandpa Fred gives her a kitten, the kitten that she names Scratches. Shortly after this grandpa Fred dies under mysterious circumstances. Grandma Martha sells the pony that didn't belong to her back to Mr. Butler.
Megan is 17 when her mom and dad try to convince her to return to the farm to help her grandmother. Megan refuses to go, until her best friend May gives her a reason to return.
Some of the basics are the same, the farm is in serious trouble and it's up to Megan and May to find the solution. The medallion and the crown device are still there, hidden as they were in the first novel. The crown doesn't always function correctly and sometimes when it malfunctions it transports them to a mysterious place. Sometimes it takes them back in time where Megan got to see herself riding her pony on that fateful day. Because of the malfunctioning crown device she realizes that her future self and May were responsible for an accident her younger self had with her pony Sparky at the old Martin log house.
Jud Johnson isn't quite right. He's a scruffy older man who lives in the west barn at the corner lot on the Martin farm. He's frequently seen walking around the farm with an axe or hatchet. He's only got one eye he can see out of and his speech isn't clear, frequently he speaks of himself in the second person. Megan and May don't trust him, but Megan says Scratches says he's all right.
Scratches and Megan communicate in a way that's quite a bit beyond normal between humans and cats. This communications between them causes May to wonder if Megan is just making it up.
