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Stories to Imagine. Worlds to Explore.

Discover characters to care about, adventures to follow, and worlds worth exploring.

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Swift Hill Holiday eBook Bundle

Books One–Three • All three eBooks for $9.99

$14.97 when purchased separately

The Travelers · The Quest, Part One · The Quest, Part Two

The adventure continues: The Bazaar and The Rite are coming next. These two forthcoming books are not part of this purchase.

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Imagination. Adventure. Discovery.

Stoneywood Publishing is an independent publisher of children’s and young adult books, based in Shelbyville, Kentucky. We create stories filled with imagination, adventure, and characters readers can grow alongside.

Illustrated Middle-Grade Fantasy

A story to read. A world to see.

Our Swift Hill Flower Patch books pair written storytelling with cinematic, full-page illustrations, bringing characters, places, and moments of magic vividly into view. The words carry the adventure; the artwork invites readers to linger.

Moonlight pooled across the stone steps of the Citadel, pale and cool against the night air. A soft wind stirred the hem of Mordonia Harvest’s cloak as she stood before the great front doors. She had been here many times before, but tonight carried a different weight.

Tomorrow, Lord Bloomthorne would launch his long‑awaited Quest.

And she had brought something he would want to see.

The door opened with a quiet creak.

Zelda blinked in surprise only for a moment before her expression warmed. “Lady Harvest. Of course. Please come in.”

Mordonia inclined her head with a gentle smile. “Thank you. I won’t keep him long.”

Zelda stepped aside, ushering her into the candlelit hall.

Illustration from The Quest, Part One: by lamplight, Zelda opens the Citadel’s great wooden doors to Mordonia Harvest, who waits on the stone step in a blue cloak, holding a rolled scroll.

Inside The Quest, Part One