Your favorite Tennis Shoes heroes return in a whirlwind of nail-biting action and suspense across the vivid spectrums of space and time!
Join Jim Hawkins as he walks side by side with the mortal Messiah on His eternal pilgrimage to save the souls of humankind. Journey with Joshua Plimpton, a chief captain of the Nephites, as he pursues the vilest villains to rescue the golden plates of the Book of Mormon. Experience the exhilarating and heart-wrenching exploits of Apollus, Steffanie, Gidgiddonihah, and the rest of the Tennis Shoes clan who seek to outwit the most mysterious and dangerous adversaries of their lives.
All of the teeth-gnashing forces of the Lamanites and Gadiantons converge on the Hill Cumorah as the prophets Mormon and Moroni desperately strive to avert one of history's most terrible battles.
It's an adventure of breathtaking magnitude as the most common and fallible of human characters must embrace the unconquerable light of heaven and defeat the raging forces of evil to save their loved ones, themselves, and the fragile fabric of the universe!
Tropes:
- Action Girl: Asherah, a Jaredite warrior and granddaughter of Akish.
- Big Badass Battle Sequence: We see a war between the Jaredites featuring giant elephants and more.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: While keeping watch for an ambush, characters ask Harry whether Micah actually has any meaningful combat experience. Harry realizes that he really doesn't, and sure enough, the character is killed in the next engagement.
- Four Lines, All Waiting: We follow several different groups:
- Jim, the Hawkins family patriarch, in the Jerusalem of 33 AD with his sister Jenny, following the ministry of Jesus Christ.
- Joshua Plimpton and his brother-in-law Marcos Sanchez, fighting through Jaredite times to retrieve the stolen Golden Plates.
- The Cast Herd (Hawkinses, Plimptons, Ryan Champion, Moroni, Gilgal, & six "ancient times" friends) that reunited at the end of Book 10 making their way towards the Hill Cumorah in the 4th century AD.
- Occasional interpolation from other groups.
- Leave No Witnesses: The standing policy of the Gadianton Ghosts.
- Sacrificial Lion: Two examples:
- Micah, Harry's best friend since Book 7, gets killed.
- Not a death, but still devastating - Megan, protagonist since Book 5, gets blinded in AGONIZING fashion.
