DarkIsle

D. A. Nelson

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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.

Morag’s journey is perilous and dark forces are already afoot to stop her. Along the way are clues not only to the stone’s whereabouts but also to the disappearance of her parents, urging Morag onwards to fulfil a destiny that seems inextricably linked to her own…

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