Ryan J. Southworth

The Great Wilderness was very much like your home. Well, perhaps not so very much. Unless your hometown is covered with such woods that a squirrel could run for days without ever touching the ground; unless you might discover that some animals in your back yard are not truly animals at all...

Ceylon was a child, very much like yourself. Well, perhaps not so very much. Unless you are orphaned and homeless and often alone; unless you’ve wandered from jungle to forest and joined up with a traveling merchant caravan; unless you stand no taller than my kneecap and have skin that smells...

Book One of the captivating world of the Treeborn Trilogy Mapaline, the wildly adventurous daughter of the Maple family, is faced with a dangerous quest that will leave her family and friends at risk—but may save them all. Mapaline was a child, very much like yourself. Well, perhaps not so...