Scott Mebus has worked as a producer and director in television (for MTV and VH1) and also writes and performs for theater.  He lives with his wife in Manhattan, where he is writing about Rory’s next adventure.  This is his first book for children.

A New Yorker for all of his thirteen years, Rory Hennessy has always been happy just to hold his little family together. But then a magician’s trick opens his eyes to Mannahatta, a spirit city that co-exists alongside our own Manhattan. A city inhabited by Indian sachems, warrior cockroaches, and children made entirely of papier-mache. A city built by history and legend, and ruled by the immortal Gods of Manhattan, including Babe Ruth, Alexander Hamilton, and Peter Stuyvesant. If something or someone in the history of New York was important enough, loved enough, feared enough, imagined enough, remembered enough, it is reborn in Mannahatta.

Only Rory has the power to see Mannahatta and reveal it to others. But that gift may soon be his end as he is pursued through mazes of past and present, chasing history and the chance to right Mannahatta’s greatest wrong.