Jeff Smith

Run out of Boneville, the Bone cousins are separated in the desert. Fone Bone finds his way to Gran'ma Ben's farm with the help of Thorn, her beautiful granddaughter. After a fierce fight with the rat creatures and some help from Bone's friend the dragon, Gran'ma Ben reunites the Bone cousins, but the dark forces are conspiring against them, promising that their adventures are only beginning.

"Long before the Bone cousins were ever lost in the uncharted forest of the Valley, Big Johnson Bone, the discoverer of the Rolling Bone River, founded Boneville. But little is known of the mighty explorer's adventures before he started his famous trading post. So when Smiley sits down with a group of young scouts to retell the legendary stories of Boneville's origins, what they hear are wild antics complete with Rat Creatures, Dragons, and a snarky...

Fone and Smiley Bone encounter complications in the form of Rock Jaw, an enormous mountain lion, and baby animals orphaned by rat creature attacks as they journey through the wilderness with a lost rat creature cub they are returning to the mountains.

The adventure starts when cousins Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of Boneville and later get separated and lost in the wilderness, meeting monsters and making friends as they attempt to return home.

The war in the valley rages on while the Bones, Gran'ma Ben, and their loyal rat creature cub venture through mysterious ghost circles, where reality meets the supernatural, on a trek to Atheia to bring Thorn to safety.