The Lost Key (Green Ember Lost Tales 1) (2025)

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Picket, Heather, Jo, and your favorite Green Ember heroes are back for a thrilling new adventure. In the days after their arrival at Halfwind Citadel, the friends are caught up in a desperate fight for the cause when an internal conspiracy threatens to unravel the growing strength of rabbitkind's resistance.

"The Lost Key is just what we’re hoping for: more classic Green Ember! It features all our favorite characters in a high-energy adventure with wolves on the attack, clues to unravel, hidden traitors, noble heroes, and lots of laughs!"

--Sara Masarik, Plumfield Moms

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Picket, Heather, Jo, and your favorite Green Ember heroes are back for a thrilling new adventure. In the days after their arrival at Halfwind Citadel, the friends are caught up on a desperate fight for the cause when an internal conspiracy threatens to unravel the growing strength of rabbitkind's resistance.

Praise for Green Ember

I read ALL of SD Smith's books out loud to my children for a bedtime ritual. To me there's nothing better than a cold TV and all the kiddos huddled up around a good book. For a dad, I'm hoping above hopes that this story ignites a fire in my childrens' hearts like they do to mine.
Garret
I love going back and learning what happened before. These stories are full of action and adventure, but also demonstrate the power of love and the value of family and relationships.
Penney
This series is filled with adventure and teaches so much about the importance of one’s character. It’s easy to read and follow. The brave characters inspire the reader to stand up to their own battles with integrity. I highly recommend it.
Izette

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Lost Tales Q & A

When can I read this?
After The Green Ember is fine. Technically, it fits in after The First Fowler and before Ember Falls in chronology, but can be read anytime after The Green Ember.

When is it set?
It is set just after the Longtreaders and Jo, Helmer, Smalls, and Emma arrive at Halfwind from Cloud Mountain.

Who are the main characters?
Picket, Heather, Jo, and Helmer

Will there be more Lost Tales?
Yes. God willing.

Is it true there is a bonus story after The Lost Key that takes place after the end of Ember’s End?
That’s a secret.

Will S. D. Smith write more books, especially about Helmer, and the Pilgrim?
He hopes to!

About S. D. Smith

S. D. SMITH is the author ofThe Green Ember Series, a million+ selling adventure saga featuring heroic #RabbitsWithSwords.The Green Emberspent time as the number one bestselling audiobook in the world on Audible. He is also the author of the madcapMooses with Bazookas: And Other Stories Children Should Never Readas well as the touching throwback adventure,The Found Boys. Finally, he has co-authored two fantasy adventure novels with his son (J. C. Smith),Jack Zulu and the Waylander’s KeyandJack Zulu and the Girl with Golden Wings. Smith’s stories are captivating readers across the globe who are hungry for “new stories with an old soul.”

Though packed with old school virtue and moral imagination, Smith doesn’t merely create “safe” stories, but bold, daring, truthful tales of light that help shape children who become dangerous—dangerous to the darkness.

Smith is a founder and owner of Story Warren, a publishing, events, and IP development house based in rural West Virginia. Story Warren exists to serve families as “allies in imagination.”

S. D. Smith lives in Grandview, West Virginia with his wife and four kids.