STONE The Adventures of Rhone & Stone - Book One "You know you're lonely when your best friend is a rock." Orphaned at thirteen, Rhone survives alone on a failing homestead at the edge of a brutal frontier-until the day he pulls a strange rock from the river. Stone is an ancient intelligence with knowledge older than civilization itself. But knowledge, as they soon discover, isn't the same as experience-and their unlikely friendship becomes something neither of them expected. Unfortunately, they don't have much time to figure it out. When word spreads of strange goings-on, powerful men come looking-ready to buy, take, or kill for what Rhone has found. Hunted across the badlands with nowhere left to run, Rhone makes one last desperate gamble. And fails. What saves him isn't mercy. It's the OPR. But survival comes with a price. What begins as an escape quickly becomes something far bigger than either of them imagined. Because finding Stone was only the beginning. A hopeful science-fantasy adventure of hidden mysteries, dangerous secrets, found family, and the extraordinary bond between a lonely boy and the ancient being who chose him. Continue the adventure in Luna, the 4.9 multi-award-winning second book in The Adventures of Rhone & Stone.