Book One

Silver Light

The great Mothertrees, home to tree dwellers for thousands of years, are dying. The only ones who can restore them are those known as Reachers, who also have the power to commune with Thara, an enigmatic being that lives deep in the earth. But Reachers, despite their crucial abilities, are condemned as dangerous by the elders and are executed for them.

When Walde learns he has become a Reacher, he keeps his gift a secret—until the day when a change in his own Mothertree sees him and his father tested by the elders.

Using all his control, Walde is able to pass the test, but his father fails and is sentenced to death. All is not as it seems, however, and when Walde discovers that the execution was staged, he sets out on a mission to find his father and uncover the truth. On the way he meets Brite, a woman on the run after killing a wealthy man in self-defense, and a group of ageless children who had been stolen from Reacher parents and are now living in a dead Mothertree.

But the greatest challenge is still before him when he discovers that the path the elders have set his people on threatens to end their way of life forever.

Can Walde protect the ones he loves, rescue his father, and save a world from disaster?

Book Two

Battle for the Woodlands

The last surviving Mothertrees are under threat. Without the Reachers, those with the ability to restore them to health, they will die and the children of the Reachers will remain frozen in a state of perpetual childhood.

Walde, a Reacher who is fighting against the odds to save one of the last remaining Mothertrees, now discovers that he will soon become a father and becomes fixated on protecting it, since he is well aware that his child will not grow if it dies.

To that end, he gathers a disparate group of Reachers and others who have learned the true value of the Mothertrees to their continued existence and as their sole point of contact with Thara, an enigmatic but powerful being who lives deep in the earth.

With this determined band, Walde wages a defense against those who are ready to destroy them, prepared to do whatever it takes to protect a way of life stretching back thousands of years.

But how far is too far? And how much of himself will he have to sacrifice to achieve his goal?