The Lost King — R.L. Holmes

The Journey continues. The ruthless Redheads continue to dominate the west, while a small group of unlikely creatures plot to overthrow the usurper Enu, to place the rightful leader a Yellowhead in his place. Armies gather from the four corners of Blackstone to destroy the ghoads. But they must be cunning about this. The ghoads are larger and more powerful than they, and their numbers grow as Blackstone's population of drops. This is due to the ghoad's enormous furnace built in Southland, the home of the delightful faery. There they burn down forests and the creatures that live within, to use the cooled ashes of the dead to make more of their own kind. Meanwhile, the travelers consisting of a feisty faery from the south, with her pine needle sword, an aging grumbler from the west armed with a sling shot, and pouch full of pebbles, a farting swamper who thinks he's faery from the south, armed with his pet gecko Pu, and poor Jola the boy faery, whose soul was pulled out of his body, and put into a stone by the ghoads, continues on what seems like a hopeless journey, desperately trying to find the king who they hope will put the boy faery back together again. But with so much turmoil in Blackstone and so much destruction and death, a solution may be more difficult that they think.