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.
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.