The continuing comic book saga finds the Bone cousins face-to-face with a dragon, providing Phoney with a good opportunity to sell beer and Thorn with an unexpected connection to her past; while danger lurks in the form of the rat creature Kingdok.
As war spreads through the valley, Gran'ma Ben, Lucius and Phoney Bone join the Veni-yan warriors at Old Man's Cave to make their final stand against the rat creature army.
Phoney Bone rigs the Spring Fair's annual Great Cow Race by putting Smiley in a bovine disguise and convincing everyone to bet their livestock on the mystery cow, and Fone Bone finds himself in a one-cousin battle with the rat creatures.
Collects three comic adventures of Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone, three cousin who end up in a the mysterious Valley after being run out of their hometown of Boneville.
The Bone cousins, along with Gran'ma Ben and Thorn, struggle to reach the safety of the city of Atheia, on a journey that has become increasingly bleak with the release of the Lord of the Locusts.