Prue McKeel's life is ordinary. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where it rains a lot. She has a mother and a father and a baby brother. Ordinary. At least until her brother is abducted by a flock of crows. And then things get really weird. You see, on every map of Portland there is a big splotch of green in the center of the city labeled I.W. This stands for Impassable Wilderness. No one's ever gone in -- or at least returned to tell of it. And this is where the crows take her brother. So begins an adventure that will take Prue and her friend Curtis deep into the Impassable Wilderness. There they uncover a secret world in the midst of violent upheaval, a world full of warring creatures, peaceable mystics and powerful figures with the darkest intentions. And what begins as a rescue mission becomes something much bigger as the two friends find themselves entwined in a struggle for the very freedom of this wilderness. A wilderness the locals call Wildwood.

• Format: Paperback / softback
• Publication Date: 01/09/2026
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
• Country of Origin: Australia
• Pages: 576
• Dimensions (mm): 196x153x42mm
• 8-12 years