The Silent Strength of Stones
β Scribed by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- Publisher
- Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 168 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards: A lonely teenager hides in the forest concealing his own magicβuntil a battle for survival makes hiding impossible.
Summer has come to Sauterelle Lake, a vacation community in the Oregon Cascades, and seventeen-year-old Nick Verrou would rather roam the woods than work in his father's general store. His curiosity and connection with nature have him dodging his job at every opportunity.
When he meets mysterious vacationer Willow and her familyβand their unnerving pet wolfβNick discovers that others share the powers he has tried to suppress. But Nick soon learns that nature's magic can be more dangerous than he ever imagined. Now the real trick will be surviving until autumn . . .
The Silent Strength of Stones is the second novel by the author of A Red Heart of Memories and other acclaimed works. "A startling new voice in contemporary fantasy" (Locus),...
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