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BLUE STONES, BLACK ROCK

A broken heart and a scarred mind can be healed with help from another world.

A story that explores the power of love beyond boundaries.

A tale of mystery touched by magic.

Adam is a brilliant young classical pianist on the rise, but his troubled mind threatens to de-rail him.  His relationship with his girlfriend is under strain. He keeps secret that he is being haunted.  A girl watches him from the shadows.  He knows she is there, but cannot see her.  He suspects that she has a mission for him: to return to the place where he grew up in order to deal with unfinished business.

Adam’s journey home is stalled by strange hallucinatory happenings.  Someone wants to disrupt his progress, but his unseen spectral companion is ever protective.  As they travel, he relates events in the past which shed light on the present.  He tells of himself as a boy, a musical prodigy, living a near feral existence on a beautiful island, a world apart.  He tells of a girl who was his close comrade and soul mate, but evil lurked, waiting to snatch happiness and threaten destruction.

Can this damaged young man summon up the strength to vanquish the forces of darkness?

Can a ghost help to lead him back up to the light and offer hope for the future?

EXTRACT

‘A girl stands in the garden, just beyond the open doors, watching him. The same one who watched in the bedroom. She is tall, slender, with golden skin, long, thick, tawny hair and great emerald green eyes that don’t appear to blink. She wears a filmy green dress, flecked with silver, that swirls about her like water. She steps into the room, her bare feet making no sound. She approaches Adam and stretches out her hands. As she touches him, a huge sigh overlays the notes he is playing. It fills the room, but it is not clear if it is Adam, or the girl who sighs. Perhaps they both do. She rests on his back, her cheek nuzzling his curly head and a lock of her hair falls forward. Her fingers cover his, trying to mirror his movements and he slows right down so that they can work together. The piece continues at a dreamy pace. Her eyes are closed like Adam’s, but tears only fall from under his lids. He plays on, leaving them unchecked and when he finishes the piece, he sits for a while, with bowed head.

When he opens his eyes, the girl isn’t there and he doesn’t search for her.’