Paul Stewart

It is autumn and time for Hedgehog's annual sleep. He asks Rabbit to save him a little bit of winter, so that when he wakes up he can see what it's like. But Rabbit is a forgetful animal. Will he keep his promise?

Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.

Rook Barkwater, one of the apprentices chosen to make a dangerous journey to study in the Deepwoods, joins the sky pirate Captain Twig in opposing the Guardians of the Night and learns more about his own past.

Quint finally begins his training at the Knights Academy, Maris adjusts to life in Undertown, and Sanctaphrax shivers in anticipation of a legendary storm, while a storm of a different kind brews between sky-scholars and earth-scholars.

Twig, a young sky pirate captain, is the only one who can save the floating city of Sanctaphrax from the Mother Storm.

While traveling with her family aboard the S.S. Euphonia, eight-year-old Corby Flood accidentally attracts the murderous attentions of five men, clad in bowler hats, called the Brotherhood of the Clowns as she investigates the mysterious singing coming from the ship's hold.

"Cade Quarter is on the run - wanted for the crimes of an uncle he has never even met. With nowhere else to go, he sneaks onto the Xanth Filatine, a forbidding skyship bound for the city of Hive. But he is soon forced to abandon ship for the harsh lands of the mighty Deepwoods. Cade must build a new life amongst flesh-eating bloodoak trees, fearsome goblin tribes and monstrous lake creatures. And most mysterious of all, a strange, half-formed giant...

"Cade Quarter is starting a new life in the wilds, along with Tug, the Nameless One, and Rumblix, his prowlgrin pup. But despite the calm waters of the lake they live beside, and the secrets in its depths, all is not well in the Farrow Ridges. Cade has enemies who have not forgotten him. And the arrival of a sinister mire-pearlers' skyship, the Doombringer, marks the start of a terrible threat to their community." -- Page [4] cover.

An unbonded knight traveling as a "free lance" meets more than his share of trouble when he signs on with Lord Big Nose to recover a crown from the Lake of Skulls.

Where would you find three moons, a floating lake, and a perfumed bog filled with pink stinky hogs and exploding gas frogs? A place that's home to a wizard with only one spell, an ogre who cries a lit, and a very sarcastic budgie? Welcome to Muddle Earth. A place where anything can happen - and usually does.