Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.

FAR FAR AWAY, JUTTING OUT INTO THE EMPTINESS BEYOND, LIES THE EDGE. FILLED WITH STRANGE PEOPLES AND TERRIFYING CREATURES, THIS IS A WORLD UNLIKE ANY OTHER- WHERE ACTION AND DANGER AWAIT AT EVERY TURN. ABANDONED AT BIRTH, TWIG HAS BEEN BROUGHT UP BY A FAMILY OF WOOD TROLLS- A HEART STOPPING ADVENTURE.

Twig, a young sky pirate captain, is the only one who can save the floating city of Sanctaphrax from the Mother Storm.

Apprenticed to the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax, a floating city of scholars, gossip, and treachery, fourteen-year-old Quint runs increasingly dangerous errands, which eventually bring him to a place of gruesome monsters that threaten his life and those of his friends.

Rook Barkwater, the young librarian knight, attempts to stop Vox Verlix, the Most High Academe, in his plot to take over Edgeworld once again.

Quint leaves his studies at the Knights Academy in Sanctaphrax to assist his father Wind Jackall in his obsessive and dangerous quest to track down and bring to justice the evil Turbot Smeal.

Quint leaves his studies at the Knights Academy in Sanctaphrax to assist his father Wind Jackall in his obsessive and dangerous quest to track down and bring to justice the evil Turbot Smeal.