The Ruin House
Houston, Texas · Est. MMXXVI
Series · Middle Grade

The Adventures of
Ashanti & Skully

by Thane Xavier

A girl, her loyal companion, and the things that live past where the map ends.

The Adventures of Ashanti & Skully is a middle-grade dark adventure series from Thane Xavier. Ashanti is curious about everything — especially the things the adults won’t explain. Skully is loyal about everything, including following her to places they probably shouldn’t go.

The series takes young readers into woods that are bigger than they look, across thresholds they didn’t know were there, and face-to-face with whatever is waiting on the other side. Dark, not cruel. Brave, not reckless. For readers old enough to meet a real monster and decide, on their own, what to do about it.

Books in the Series

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The series opens here.

Ashanti & Skully: The Borderline cover
Ashanti & Skully Book One

The Borderline

Thane Xavier

Ashanti follows a path she shouldn’t have found. Past the skulls, past the treeline, past the place the map stops — something is waiting. And it saw her first.

Middle Grade Dark Adventure · 2026
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