10,000 years after the Great Ice, evil is on the rise. The Morok, a murderous force, has taken over Erainn, the holy land of the tribes, and enslaved its keepers.

Osian, a young hunter, searching for his lost family, comes across a strange object, the Shining Stone, a thing of power, with links to the time before the Ice. He uses it as a weapon against the Morok, but learns it has a mission of its own - and a deadly secret.

Now hunted by the Morok, Osian joins a band of renegades led by the mysterious shaman Tiroc Og and journeys with them to the treacherous Fire Mountains, the lair of the Morok leader, there to seek his family and help free the slaves. His mission must succeed. But he needs to find the secret of the Shining Stone - before it is too late.

About the author

Dr Brendan Quayle is an award-winning environmental writer and film maker. He is the author (with David Bellamy) of the best-selling England's Last Wilderness and the seminal Turning the Tide. Scots-Irish of Manx ancestry, he lives with his family in a wild wood in the North of England. Trained originally as an anthropologist, he studied amongst shamans and real-life sorcerers in the mountain tribes of the High Himalaya. His extraordinary experiences there, together with his lifelong interest in the myth and folklore of his Celtic ancestors, provide the inspiration and much of the source material for The Shining Stone.

Find out more at www.brendanquayle.com.