DarkIsle

When two strangers help ten-year-old Morag escape a life of drudgery she has no idea that joining them on their mission will take her into a world more dangerous than the one she is leaving behind.

An ancient stone used to protect their mysterious northern homeland from human invaders has been stolen by a renegade intent on harnessing its powers. With Morag’s help they have a chance to rescue it, by freeing the only guide who knows the way – a dragon turned to stone thirty years before – to an island beyond the horizon, unknown to mortal men.

Reviews

• "D A Nelson's début novel, DarkIsle with its striking cover by Aberdeenshire illustrator Shona Grant, was inspired by a stone dragon sculpture at Irvine Beach. Along with her unusual travelling companions - a dodo, a rat and, later, a dragon - Morag escapes her cruel foster parents to embark on a dangerous and exciting quest to find the Eye of Lornish and save the world from the wicked Devlish and his minions. The dialogue is refreshingly humorous and matter-of-fact and this Scottish-set fantasy will appeal to boys and girls alike." The Scotsman