Flower scents and sunshine make it difficult for Haden Lamplight, slipping excitedly from the comforts of her family's treetop home, to envision anything but success as she and her unusual companions set out on a mission to save their beloved empire from the darknesses that have begun to threaten it. They soon find themselves careening over waterfalls, slogging through swamps, forging the way over frigid mountain peaks, and yet these are the least of their worries. Will internal struggles and very apparent foes cause them to face, in shameful defeat, the ones who are counting on them, or could it be that Providence is not only watching, not only intervening, but truly concerns Himself with each individual they encounter along the way? Travel with these good friends through awe and disappointment, to eventually uncover the secrets we all hope to understand about ourselves, about our world, and about our Maker. Deriving from enhanced childhood summers amidst mountain paths, pine forests and clear streams-daily life embellished by an entourage of animal companions and adulthood saturated in the serene-Isabella Ivy constructs short stories, poetry and children's literature that touch on the multiplied aspects of living, by simplifying spirituality and illuminating the separate, protective, wholesome ways of the loving Creator, God.