From bestselling author Matthew Le Merle comes the fable of an enchanted valley and its ethereal keepers now in dire need of human help. For thousands of years the Grom have cared for the valley of Groombridge watching over its gardens, fields and woods. Through the centuries they have seen our kind working, playing and dying alongside the silver stream that flows through the valley, and have come to our assistance when needed. Now the Grom are threatened by an ominous blackness which has been sickening them and destroying their magic that preserves the enchanted valley. Will we help them in their time of need?