"Max Tilt thinks his luck is finally changing, thanks to his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne's unfinished, unpublished manuscript, The Lost Treasures. Using the clues Verne left behind, Max and his cousin Alex were able to bottle the magical healing elements needed to cure his mother's illness just in the nick of time. But then Max and Alex discover that the vials were stolen by their former friend, Bitsy. She has plans to use them to save...

While in St. Petersburg, Florida, to help clean out his recently deceased grandmother's house, thirteen-year-old Jason finds an old postcard that leads him on an adventure that blends figures from an old, unfinished detective story with his family's past.