Stone

STONE

The Adventures of Rhone & Stone — Book One

“You know you’re lonely when your best friend is a rock.”

Orphaned at thirteen, Rhone survives alone on a failing homestead at the edge of a brutal frontier—until the day he pulls a strange rock from the river.

Stone is an ancient intelligence, filled with knowledge older than civilization—but knowledge, as they soon find, isn’t the same as experience, and their bond becomes something neither of them expexcted

Unfortunately, they don’t have time to figure it out.

When word spreads of strange goings-on, powerful men come looking—ready to buy, take, or kill for what Rhone has found.

Hunted across the badlands, with nowhere left to run, Rhone makes one last desperate gamble.

And fails.

What saves him isn’t mercy. It’s the OPR.

But survival comes with a price—and what begins as escape quickly turns into something far bigger than either of them imagined.

Because finding Stone was only the beginning.

A frontier fantasy of hidden mysteries, dangerous secrets, and the extraordinary bond between a lonely boy and the being who chose him.

- Continue the story in Luna — the 4.9 star, multi-award-winning sequel.

An award winning, first place author of the Chanticleer International Book Awards, Dante Rossetti, Young Adult Fiction catagory, Strider began his writing career after twenty-five years as a fire fighter/EMT. The emotions and experiences of those calls carry themselves through every story, bringing true 'been-there' reality to the scenes.
With additional years as a business owner, general contractor, designer, wildland firefighter, big game guide, ski instructor, back packer and sword fighter, his wide range of knowledge is intricately woven throughout his stories. 
To date, Strider has written YA (young adult), NA (New adult), and general fiction in the realm of: sci-fi western, light steampunk, dystopian (post apocalyptic), gaslight (early mechanism era) and just good fun reading. 
Contact at: DuramenPublishing@gmail.com