Fourteen-year-old William Bloodworth Altman is on the run from the law.
He knew that since everyone would believe the churchgoing, mealy-mouth hypocrite that was his stepmother, there was no chance of anyone listening to his side of the story.
He has to get as far away from Apache County as he can. But first he has a mission. For as long as he can remember he has been fascinated by Shadow Mountain, an obsidian monolith that springs up from the prairie. Many climbers have tried to scale it. None have succeeded. Billy has virtually no mountaineering experience, his equipment is homemade, and he knows he will probably end up a broken skeleton at the foot of the monolith, as so many have before.
He’d rather die there than rot away in jail. What does he have to lose?
Despite the odds, and after many close calls, he makes it.
And is introduced to a new world, where the grass is thick and green, horses run wild and seem to be able to communicate with nothing more than a gesture and a thought.
It is the land of the Tashunka Wakanda, the dream horse.
The people who live here are completely cut off from the world from which he came. They trace their heritage back to the first people who crossed the land bridge from what is now Siberia into the new world. When Billy queries them about their isolation, and how they’ve been able to maintain it, he is told that there are an infinite number of worlds, some so far out they’ll never touch, others that get entirely too close.
Now they face grave danger. A world ruled by the Serpent Queen is ready to kill them all to satiate her bloodlust. They were saved by The One in a previous encounter.
William Bloodworth Altman is their only hope. He is The One.
He is thrown into a world where nothing is as it seems, where the animals look like composites of your worst nightmares, and where to fail is to be trapped there forever.
All he has is the same determination that got him though the climb, an obsidian dagger, and the wiliness of an Oklahoma farm boy.
Genre: Thriller
He knew that since everyone would believe the churchgoing, mealy-mouth hypocrite that was his stepmother, there was no chance of anyone listening to his side of the story.
He has to get as far away from Apache County as he can. But first he has a mission. For as long as he can remember he has been fascinated by Shadow Mountain, an obsidian monolith that springs up from the prairie. Many climbers have tried to scale it. None have succeeded. Billy has virtually no mountaineering experience, his equipment is homemade, and he knows he will probably end up a broken skeleton at the foot of the monolith, as so many have before.
He’d rather die there than rot away in jail. What does he have to lose?
Despite the odds, and after many close calls, he makes it.
And is introduced to a new world, where the grass is thick and green, horses run wild and seem to be able to communicate with nothing more than a gesture and a thought.
It is the land of the Tashunka Wakanda, the dream horse.
The people who live here are completely cut off from the world from which he came. They trace their heritage back to the first people who crossed the land bridge from what is now Siberia into the new world. When Billy queries them about their isolation, and how they’ve been able to maintain it, he is told that there are an infinite number of worlds, some so far out they’ll never touch, others that get entirely too close.
Now they face grave danger. A world ruled by the Serpent Queen is ready to kill them all to satiate her bloodlust. They were saved by The One in a previous encounter.
William Bloodworth Altman is their only hope. He is The One.
He is thrown into a world where nothing is as it seems, where the animals look like composites of your worst nightmares, and where to fail is to be trapped there forever.
All he has is the same determination that got him though the climb, an obsidian dagger, and the wiliness of an Oklahoma farm boy.
Genre: Thriller
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