Beneath the Beneath - Three Gnomes and a Goblin, #1

Root and Branch, all things grow, but never forget what lies below. Gnomes thrive in Danderroot, as they have done for an age. They shepherd plants, sing badly, snack adventurously, and behave nicely. But nice comes with a price. They performed the Forgetting and purged the Great Sadness but now it's waking up beneath their feet. Marial and her best friends, Pickwick and Willifurd, must solve the mystery to save Danderroot before it falls Beneath the Beneath. Rot and Ruin, all things die, you'll burn to real if you climb too high. Goblins live a rotten existence on the knife edge of ruin, trapped between deadly dangers below and the burning world of light above.
G'Nob has a problem: he wants to know "why?" and he wants a way out. But when monsters from the Up Top break in, they awaken the terror in the basement and unleash a cascade of ruin for the goblins. He must find a way to save his own crusty hide and his clan while he's at it. He might even find some answers to the "whys". Beneath the Beneath is an epic fantasy tale about colliding worlds and unlikely heroes who overcome the odds with care and cunning.   Equal parts humor and mystery, you will meet ridiculously nice gnomes, despicably likable goblins, and a terrifying golem determined to clean them out of existence like an overachieving clutter guru.