Inkheart is written by Cornellia Funke as an adult novel in the year 2003. It is basically an adult fantasy novel founded on the 2007 online poll. The National Education Association addressed the book as one of its “Teachers” Top 100 Books for Children.   In the novel, a 12 –year old girl Meggie sees a stranger who stares at her from the window. The girl notifies her father about what she saw and the father invites the stranger at their home.  The name of Meggie’s father is Mortimer.  The stranger is Dustfinger and well familiar with Mortimer. Meggie somehow overhears that Mortimer and Dustfinger talk about the unknown places and people. In the next morning Mortimer announces all of a sudden that they need to go to Meggie’s aunt’s house because Mortimer need to fix some books there.  Dustfinger is found on the road and to the house of Elinor who is Meggie’s aunt.  The house of Elinor is full of books and Mortimer starts his own work once he reaches there.  One day Mortimer is captured by a group of people having unusual names who bring with him a book named as “Inkheart”.  Suddenly, Meggie and Elinor inform the police but the police become indifferent to their claims and refer to them as mad people.

 After some time they understand that Dustfinger has left for some while. During the absence of Dustfinger, Meggie packs the bag and ventures in search of her father but becomes caught be Elinor. When  Dustfinger returns, three of them venture on a journey to find Mortimer in Capricorn’s village.  They meet a guard at the entry gate who is named as Basta who knows about Dustfinger. The guard takes three of them to the house of Capricorn and asked to wait there.  Meggie pulls out the real book of Inkheart that was there because Elinor had exchanged Inkheart with another book.  This made Mortimer take the wrong book during the time of being captured.  The people at the house of Capricorn throw Meggie and Elinor into the cell where Mortimer had been kept which makes them reunite. After it Mortimer tell Meggie the story of why they are there.

  Long time ago, Meggie’s father was reading the book Inkheart in front of her mother Teresa.  Mortimer suddenly found out that he had a special gift of bringing things to life from the books by reading them aloud. However, the issue with the boon was that whatever comes out of the book , something in exchange should go in.  During reading the seventh chapter, three main characters Caporicorn, Dustfinger and Basta came out of the book in their house.  In exchange, Teresa and the two cats go into the book leaving Meggie crying for her mother.  Mortimer many more times tried to bring his wife back but his power did not function.

 In another scene, Capricorn is found to bring three into a hellish Church. They are all painted in red with a large statue of Capricorn on them.  Capricorn makes Mortimer read the Tales from A Thousands and One nights when a boy appears named as Farid.  In that particular night, Dustfinger frees the prisoners and runs the car of Elinor leaving Basta and another guard run after them.  They reach a forsaken village and stay for a bit until hearing the guards coming with the dogs and catch the entire group.

  Elinor and Meggie arrive at a village and talk to Farid regarding Dustfinger’s being kidnapped and sent to the crypt in order to recover the book Inkheart. Later, they try to plan and stop the reading and get the creatures come out of the book.  Mortimer and Farid camouflage themselves to mix in the uniformed people .  In the same night, Farid is injured through the bullet fires and gets wound on his head. Elinor also gets caught by finding Farid and Mortimer after not returning and put in the crypt with Resa. Resa also had been caught for trying to steal the book.

Mortimer, Elinor , Meggie and Dustfinger travel to the nearby village where there was Fenoglio who is the author of Inkheart stays. Meggie and Fenogilo is recaptured by Basta. Dustfinger comes to steal the only copy of Inkheart from Capricorn. He is quiute thwarted when the conspirator Resa is caught. The captive Meggie realizes that she also has the gift her father has. When Capricorn learns about this, he wants his favourite assassin come out of Inkheart named as Shadow. Fenogilo and Meggie turns the tables on Capricorn having altered the text which Meggie was supposed to read.

Meggie is found to be putting on a white dress for the reading and also has the curse for the shadow within her sleeve.  She queries Dustfinger to see and sees her mom Resa. At last, the house of Capricorn is set in fire by Farid and Mortimer. Towards the end of the story, Mortimer kills Capricorn.  The shadow then turns to the Fairies, the brownies and the glass men from whose ashes he was created.  There are many other magical creatures who return with Meggie, Elinor , Resa, Darius.

Meggie pulls out the real book of Inkheart that was there because Elinor had exchanged Inkheart with another book.  This made Mortimer take the wrong book during the time of being captured.  The people at the house of Capricorn throw Meggie and Elinor into the cell where Mortimer had been kept which makes them reunite. After it Mortimer tell Meggie the story of why they are there.

  Long time ago, Meggie’s father was reading the book Inkheart in front of her mother Teresa.  Mortimer suddenly found out that he had a special gift of bringing things to life from the books by reading them aloud. However, the issue with the boon was that whatever comes out of the book , something in exchange should go in.  During reading the seventh chapter, three main characters Caporicorn, Dustfinger and Basta came out of the book in their house.