Oliver and the Footprints Home - SHUTTS

Autor: SHUTTS

Editorial: THOMAS SHUTTS

Año: 14/10/2026

ISBN: 9798182914161

Encuadernación: Tapa blanda

Páginas: 140 pp.

Idioma: eng

EAN: 9798182914161

Twelve-year-old Oliver has spent years living alone in the Boundary Cottage, a lonely stone house on the edge of the mysterious Whispering Wood. With his father gone and no one to share his days, Oliver has learned to survive through routine, keeping the fire alive, winding an old clock, and enduring the silence that fills every corner of his home. But for seven nights, something impossible has disturbed his isolation. At sunset, three violent knocks strike his front door. Each time he opens it, the porch is empty. Then, one evening, Oliver discovers a trail of fresh footprints pressed into the moss outside his cottage. The prints are unmistakably the size of his own boots, yet they lead away from the house and into the dark forest, with no tracks showing where their mysterious maker came from. Determined to discover who-or what-is calling him, Oliver follows the glowing trail into a wilderness where ordinary laws seem to have lost their meaning. His journey leads him through the ancient Whispering Wood and toward the terrifying Gilded Chasm, where a living silver bridge guards the passage to a hidden settlement called Oakhaven. There, Oliver encounters strange guardians, suspicious villagers, and an ancient prophecy connected to the carved bone star button he inherited from his father. The bridge demands more than ordinary coins from those who wish to cross: only an unspoken truth, honestly surrendered, can earn a traveler passage. As Oliver ventures deeper into Oakhaven?s secrets, he discovers a world trapped in unnatural winter, where time itself has become entangled with forgotten history. The people look to him as a figure from their legends, but their expectations threaten to turn his search for answers into a burden he never chose. Meanwhile, the formidable ranger Dorian Blackwell challenges Oliver?s courage, and Nina Ross, a sharp-minded young bone-carver, offers a different kind of strength-one grounded in honesty, independence, and the refusal to let old prophecies dictate the future. To understand the footprints and the three knocks, Oliver must confront the painful truth he has carried since his father disappeared. His greatest obstacle may not be the dangerous forest, the bottomless chasm, or the village?s fading magic, but the loneliness and guilt that have shaped his understanding of himself. Oliver and the Footprints Home is an atmospheric fantasy adventure about impossible paths, ancient mysteries, and the courage to face the truths we hide from ourselves. Blending eerie woodland magic, a time-bending mystery, and the warmth of unexpected human connection, this story explores what it means to find home-not simply as a place to return to, but as a truth we must discover and choose for ourselves.
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