A quietly powerful tale about history, belief, and the quiet defiance of choosing empathy over fear.
In the fourth installment of The Elderwood Chronicles, Claybrook invites readers into Hesperia—a once-enlightened realm now unraveling under the weight of fear, doctrine, and a creeping affliction known only as the Wither. Here, stories shape society more than facts, and silence is safer than asking “why.”
At the heart of this transformation stands Milowe, a young squirrel and the son of a disgraced hero, who begins to question the sermons, the disappearances, and the suffocating certainty of a kingdom that no longer listens. As rituals replace reason and neighbors turn away, Milowe discovers that sometimes the most radical act is simply to care.
Told with lyrical precision and moral clarity, Wintersfall is a meditation on courage, conscience, and the stories that bind—or break—us.