About the Book
TO WAKE THE STONE
Years past, the Child-Goddess Aphrael
had hidden Bhelliom, the Stone of Power. It rested at the very bottom
of the deepest ocean, that nevermore should its awesome power sing
temptation to mortal men.
Then a menace arose, a malign force wielding
incomprehensible destruction across all the lands. To halt that force
of evil, Sparhawk, knight and queen's champion, set out to retrieve the
sapphire rose from its briny sleep – even as his foes sought the gem for
their own diabolical ends. Sparhawk and his loyal companions must find
the Stone and safeguard it, both from those who sought to steal it and
from the horrors those evildoers had already loosed upon the world.
The most feared of all the monsters that terrorized
Tamuli were the Shining Ones: dreaded, glowing beings whose mere touch
could melt human flesh from bone. All too soon, Sparhawk and his allies
found themselves stalked by those fell creatures out of myth. For the
Shining Ones, too, had designs on Bhellion – designs that would change
the very shape of the world...
