After the last of the Forest Dwellers is annihilated by the Horde at Teeleh's command, Thomas Hunter, Forest Guard commander, lowers the recruitment age from eighteen to sixteen, and when four new recruits are chosen and sent on a quest, they are redirected to find the seven lost Books of History that control the world's destiny.

The Pilgrim's Progress, a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan, is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, and has been translated into more than two hundred languages. Now it is retold and shortened in graphic novel form for children and young adults who want to know Bunyan's story but who might well find the language of the original difficult to understand. In Volume 1, Christian, an everyman character,...