Wildheart

What’s it about?

The story.

Deep in the enchanted Dryda Forest, in the little town of Twigswick, twelve-year-old Nettle has always lived in the shadow of her headstrong older sister, Fern. Confident and fearless, Fern dreams of nothing but becoming a Wildheart Ranger, one of the guardians who protect the forest from evil magic. So when Nettle hears that Fern has abandoned the Rangers to join the sinister Shadow Stalkers of The Gloom, she knows at once that something is terribly wrong. Determined to rescue her sister, timid Nettle ventures into a forest crawling with ghouls, monsters and, most deadly of all, the ghostly Hollow Spirits. Joining the Rangers herself, she must confront her deepest fears and the Hollow Spirits that haunt the trees, if she has any hope of finding Fern. But the deeper Nettle goes, the more she begins to wonder whether her sister needs saving at all, or whether Fern is the one who must be stopped. Bec Manser's debut is a wild, magical, warmly inclusive adventure of tree-sprites, wild magic and unbreakable sisterly love, with just the right shiver of spookiness.