The Inlands I: The Man with the Stone

by Ryan Christensen

Jimmy and Cole despise their stepfather, Edwin Krollup. He's an intolerable tyrant, sure, but certain things happen in his presence. Strange things. Statues move. Sounds emanate from behind the fireplace. And each instance piques the boys' interest in their search for the haunted mines, a series of tunnels upon which Edwin built his house, years after the Auger coal mining company mysteriously disappeared in freak underground explosions. During the boys' investigation they uncover a much darker and deeper secret. Edwin Krollup is hiding something beyond the mines, and the stone necklace which finds its perennial stay around his throat is a powerful talisman from another world...and the creatures from this other world want it back! The Man with the Stone, the first book of The Inlands Trilogy, is an epic story in the same vein as The Chronicles of Narnia and the Lord of the Rings. Come join the adventure in the ultimate battle of good versus evil...and one world against another!

Paperback

First published December 1, 2005

About the author

Ryan Christensen was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. He graduated from the University of Calgary with an English degree, which he hoped to use as a springboard into Law School. But plans changed, for life is never predictable, nor does it ever follow any sort of predestined route. Ryan just fell into writing. It started to consume most of his free time, and before he knew it, the assiduous nature that should have kept his nose in the LSAT study guides instead turned to the fantastic world he devised as an escape from the harsh, realist world of the literati English students were forced to read and analyze to no end. He started spending more and more of his time in the Inlands. He began familiarizing himself with these characters that were born out of nothing...born from the briefest ideas and subtle nodding of the imagination. This part of the process thrilled Ryan: he could create something from nothing and watch it evolve. He could become, in effect, a sort of god. He wrote THE INLANDS TRILOGY while finishing his English degree, and when he finished that series he quickly moved on to another. He just finished a new novel, DAVID HOLLOW AND THE GUARDS OF THE RIM, and is currently working on the initial stages of starting that book's sequel.

You can purchase THE INLANDS TRILOGY at AMAZON.COM.

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