With the lyrical cadence of The Last Unicorn and intense imagery of A Wizard of Earthsea The
Stone Road is a timeless story of hope belonging and growing into your power.
Award-winning Australian author Trent Jamieson presents a haunting rural fantasy where the dead
speak beneath your feet and twisted monsters hunger for their lost humanity. On the day Jean
was born the dead howled. A thin scratch of black smoke began to rise behind the hills west of
town: Furnace had been lit and soon its siren call began to draw the people of Casement Rise
to it never to return. Casement Rise is a dusty town at the end of days a harsh world of
grit and arcane dangers. While Jean’s stern overprotective Nan has always kept Casement Rise
safe from monsters she may have waited too long to teach Jean how to face them on her own. On
Jean’s twelfth birthday a mysterious graceful man appears an ethereal and terrifying being
tied to her family’s secrets. Now Nan must rush Jean’s education in monsters magic and the
breaking of the world in ages past. If Jean is to combat the graceful man and finally
understand the ancient evil that powers Furnace she will have to embrace her legacy endure
her Nan’s lessons and learn all she can—before Furnace burns down her world and everyone in
it.
