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You know you're lonely when your best friend is a rock-
A genre-crossing, action-adventure, gaslight survival story of the Old West, like you've never read.
Orphaned at thirteen, Rhone lives a solitary life on the old homestead, doing what needs doing, but not much more. But his life changes when he finds a pretty rock in the shallow river near his home. When the stone begins to talk to him, nothing will ever be the same.
The stone-like crystalline entity is eons old, with tons of data stored in its crystalline matrix, but even with that knowledge it takes time to learn the difference between knowing by thinking and knowing by doing. Two entirely different things.
When the local commissioner hears of strange doings, he sends his men to find, buy, or steal, what he considers it an artifact of power, sending Rhone and Stone running to the badlands, a place named for a very good reason. But a chance encounter with the commissioner's men has Stone taken and Rhone left for dead.
Near dead, and with the puzzle-like passageways, floods, deep caverns, and desert highlands keeping him from his friend, it's the OPR, a government agency sent to check up on the commissioner, that unknowingly helps Rhone win Stone's freedom, and end the heavy-handed ways of the commissioner.
An unforgettable story of unique friends, trust, and learning, with as many twists and turns as the Badlands themselves.
A genre-crossing, action-adventure, gaslight survival story of the Old West, like you've never read.
Orphaned at thirteen, Rhone lives a solitary life on the old homestead, doing what needs doing, but not much more. But his life changes when he finds a pretty rock in the shallow river near his home. When the stone begins to talk to him, nothing will ever be the same.
The stone-like crystalline entity is eons old, with tons of data stored in its crystalline matrix, but even with that knowledge it takes time to learn the difference between knowing by thinking and knowing by doing. Two entirely different things.
When the local commissioner hears of strange doings, he sends his men to find, buy, or steal, what he considers it an artifact of power, sending Rhone and Stone running to the badlands, a place named for a very good reason. But a chance encounter with the commissioner's men has Stone taken and Rhone left for dead.
Near dead, and with the puzzle-like passageways, floods, deep caverns, and desert highlands keeping him from his friend, it's the OPR, a government agency sent to check up on the commissioner, that unknowingly helps Rhone win Stone's freedom, and end the heavy-handed ways of the commissioner.
An unforgettable story of unique friends, trust, and learning, with as many twists and turns as the Badlands themselves.