Life is boring when you live in the real world, and not in your own series of books where you are the main character. Who knows about this if not Owen, who is swamped with lessons and homework. But everything changes on the day when Owen witnesses the impossible - his classmate Bethany crawls out of a book in the library. It turns out that Bethany uses any book she comes across to find her missing father, a fictional character. Bethany can't let anyone find out her secret, so Owen makes a deal with her: all she has to do is take him into the book with her from Owen's favorite episode, "Keel Gnomenfoot" - and then he won't say a word to anyone. Plus, visiting this book could help Bethany find her father......Or it could just destroy the rest of the Keel Gnomenfoot series, reveal Bethany's secret to the world, and force Owen to relive his favorite character's last (very last!) adventure.