Stonecutters Shadow - James Haddock

James Haddock

Category: Adventure

Narrator: Daniel Wisniewski

Tags: Adventure, Novel, Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult

A coup has thrown the kingdom of Farshores into turmoil, and one of the pretenders first moves was to order mercenaries to invade the Mage District and put all its inhabitants - men, women, and children - to the sword. There is one survivor: Horace Stonecutter, the youngest son of the Stonecutter family. Though a member of a stone-cutting mage family, his stone-cutting gift had yet to manifest itself. Instead, he had a talent he first used playing hide-and-seek with other children. He discovered could hide inside shadows, and the other kids nicknamed him Hyder, because no one could spot him once he hid. Embarrassed to tell his family about this seemingly useless talent, he kept it to himself., But his ability to hide saved his life when the soldiers came to kill his family. Though there was no love lost between him and his five elder brothers, he dearly loved his mother, and the mercs killed her. That night, vengeance - in the form of an enraged Horace - moved from shadow to shadow, ki