The Watchwood Chronicles
A seven-book fantasy series for Young Adults
Five siblings, one town, one turning year, a book and a season for each.
In a small Kentucky town, five siblings climb into the hollow of an ancient oak, and their eyes are opened to a war no one else can see.
Bethel Springs looks like any quiet town. But beneath its ordinary streets a war is being waged, one fought not with armies but over the smallest choices of the people who live there: a kind word or a cruel one, a truth spoken or a truth swallowed, a decision made when no one is watching. When five siblings climb into the hollow of the old oak at the edge of the park, they are given “the seeing,” and the unseen world opens in front of them, the radiant Watchers who guard the people they love, the whispering things that feed on fear and silence, and a gray, creeping hollowness spreading over their whole town.
Told in the tradition of The Chronicles of Narnia and This Present Darkness, The Watchwood Chronicles is a Christian fantasy series for readers eleven and up, and for the grown-ups who will end up reading over their shoulders. Wonder first, with genuine darkness underneath and nothing gratuitous. It is a story about ordinary courage, the weight of small choices, and a Light that does not go out.
