Prep school senior Kari Marriner has a heart-wrenching choice to make: rescue her mother or prevent aliens destroying the Earth.
Having faced down mythical beasts and trans-dimensional villains, Kari has finally unraveled the mystery of the cult-like Temple of Truth and found the diamond sphere that can free her mother from the evil clutches of the Thoth high priests. But to find out how to use the sphere, Kari must team up with the one person she can never trust: Aranara, the treacherous sister of her missing soulmate Noon.
When a submarine trip to the bottom of the Hudson River ends in death and disaster, Kari is scarred, both emotionally and physically. She wants to run and hide but digs deep and finds new sources of inner strength. As the storm of the century hits New York, a child’s life hangs in the balance and Kari gambles everything in a final confrontation with the genocidal Thoth.
Diamond Splinters is the thrilling conclusion to JB Dutton’s EMBODIED trilogy. The first installment, Silent Symmetry, was published in 2013. The sequel, Starley’s Rust, was released in 2015.
JB Dutton is the pseudonym of author John B. Dutton when writing Young Adult and Children's fiction.
After graduating from film school in London, I emigrated to Montreal in 1987, where I still live with my two young children and their even younger goldfish. I spent over a decade as a music TV director before moving into the advertising industry as an award-winning copywriter for clients such as Cirque du Soleil. I'm now a creative director with Montreal agency Camden. In parallel to my corporate work, I've written novels, short stories, blogs, screenplays and a stage play.