Overview
Forrest Holmes’s life went to hell the day the line of black humvees rolled into town and his crazy mom disappeared. Then even stranger shit happens and Forrest knows it’s up to him to find his mom and stop the strange events that are, literally, devouring the town. But first he needs to discover the secret to his own past: a secret linked to the emberstone and so devastating that it could lead, not just to the town’s destruction, but to the destruction of EVERYTHING.
With the introduction of Forrest Holmes, Karen L. Abrahamson once again creates a world just slightly turned sideways from the world we all know. Emberstone delivers an action-packed thrill ride of a fantasy set in the mundane world of small town Washington. With its take-no-prisoners hero, its mystery, and the fantastic world Forrest discovers clinging so closely to our own, readers are going to want to know more about the adventures of Forrest Holmes.
