Joe Todd-Stanton

A girl discovers that a rock out at sea is actually a living creature and home to many animals, and must save it from being destroyed by the fishing community who think that it is dangerous.

Rowan must use her developing Wildsmith gifts to rescue a young pegasus, and becomes even more caught up in the war that has separated her family.

When war threatens her city, Rowan and her mother must flee to the Dark Forest, where she discovers her grandpa is a Wildsmith with the ability to heal and talk to animals, an ability she has now inherited

The beautiful and thought-provoking new book from the award-winning, internationally best-selling picture creator Joe Todd Stanton - author of The Secret of Black Rock, which won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.