Guardian of the Stone

I just love the cover for Guardian of the Stone..

And, of course, I love the story too.

Let me tell you, it wasn’t easy getting this one done. While I was going through the difficult time of learning I had breast cancer, I was also working on re-releasing The Stone Traveler under a different title so it could be included in my Time Stone Chronicles series. Seems like one thing after another kept getting in the way: the surgery, corrections to the book, getting the cover, and then edits on a completely different book that I needed to send to my editor.

Yikes!

But I kept my head down, got through it, and finally Guardian of the Stone was released, but without much fanfare. I had been so busy I didn’t do any promotion or line up reviews. I felt like I had let the book down. And it’s really an amazing story. Here’s the back cover blurb:

Things have not been the same for sixteen-year-old Tag Quincy since his father and brother left. Wanting to be alone and make statements with his graffiti art, Tag can hardly believe that a gang called the Primes want him to become a member. They even threaten to beat up his nerdy cousin, Ethan, unless he joins. His mother finds out and sends him to spend the summer with his Grandpa Quincy, but when Tag learns Ethan will be there as well, he decides enough is enough and runs away. A storm forces him to seek shelter in a cabin where he meets three very different men who have an extraordinary object—a stone that glows brighter than the stars.

When Tag holds the stone, it propels him through time to an ancient land, which looks a lot like Book of Mormon times. He is swept up in a fight where Sabirah, the daughter of Samuel the Lamanite, captures the daughter of wicked King Jacob. Sabirah believes the king is holding her father and brother and hopes the king will let them go in exchange for his daughter. Tag helps Sabirah, but the princess escapes. And worse still, Tag realizes the princess stole the time-traveling stone. As guardian of the stone, Tag is determined to get it back. But he is captured by the king and about to be sacrificed to an evil idol when the ground begins to shake and crack open. A violent storm sweeps the land and leaves the world in utter darkness.

Will Tag ever find the stone?

Will Sabirah ever find her father and brother?

And will Tag ever go back to his own time?

So I wanted to give another shout out for Guardian of the Stone.

The fourth book in the Time Stone Chronicles series will be Chasing the Star. I can hardly wait to tell you more about it.