Cold Stone

by Chris Kirwan

This is the story of a man who thought he could beat the Devil at his own game and ultimately come out on top. In selling his soul he was guaranteed success but only at a terrible personal price. When three orphans, Mary, Nelly and Tom enter his life he is given a last chance of redemption by the Shadowers and seizes on this life-line; but the Necrotim anticipate his every move and in trying to re-find his true self Hardacre begins a cat and mouse game where there can only be one winner.This is the thought-provoking final book of the Shadower Trilogy. It is set mainly in the realistic backgrounds of a Lancashire Cotton Mill in 1840, when child who worked in the mills were first seen as no more than white slaves, cruelly exploited for profit. A time of turbulent social, political and industrial reform when right and wrong were sacrificed in the name of progress. and in the pirate infested island of Tortuga in 1649, the time-travel novel brings a fitting climax to the loosely themed trilogy which Shadowers Crossing and The Decreationists.The book is 274 pages in length.

274 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 16, 2012