Cursed_Purity

My details on it are vague, but this is what i remember. I thought it was called Oracle, but googling it I can’t find anything that looks right. I’m fairly confident each book had a different color artwork on the front starting with blue. There were several books in the series. It was about younger kids, probably in the 12-16 range. The “oracle” (or i might be misremembering) was very powerful, and these kids needed to gather pieces of it to get it for some reason. I think it started with a boat in a storm, and the dad of one of the kids dies and that’s important for some reason. I think they went to atlantis at one point in the first two books. I think later in the series they end up near

And yet cases continue to rise

He insisted that Harry Potter was a true story, while I was certain it was made up. As the argument drew on, things got more and more heated. I was waving my copy in his face when he grabbed it and threw is across the table where it slid with ease

With a sigh, I said “Well, I guess that settles it. The book is non-friction”

He’s a small arms dealer

Butane, of course. It’s the lighter fluid