He bent and picked the sea-glass up between thumb and forefinger.
“These are heart stones.”
He heard a dry humorless chuckle and looked up into the sour slash of the Walker’s smile.
Then he heard the horror in his own voice as the question gritted out of his mouth, unbidden.
“What have you done, Walker?”
The gaunt figure above him just kept smiling, like a wolf airing its teeth.
“The glints, Walker. What the hell have you been doing to them?”
CHARLIE FLETCHER studied English literature at St. Andrews in Scotland and screenwriting at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television in Los Angeles. He has written for television, film, and also did a spot of journalism before writing The Stoneheart Trilogy, his first series for children.
Charlie Fletcher lives in Edinburgh with his wife, two children, and a terrier called Archie.
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
1. Belly of the Whale and the Monkey’s Teeth
2. The Horror
3. Old Running
4. The Gunner
5. Caged Heat
6. The Choice
7. Parking
8. The Cat on the Roof
9. Parked Up
10. Higher Ground
11. Running on Shingle
12. The Riddle of the Sphinxes
13. How a Stone Weeps
14. The One Who Walks Behind
15. A Man Called Dictionary
16. The Dragon at the Bar
17. Single Handed
18. The Walker in the Circle
19. Going Home
20. A Wolf in the Night
21. Uninvited Guest
22. The Gunner Alone
23. Mudlark and Frost Fair
24. Rough Edges
25. George in Charge
26. Going Underground
27. The Dark Shaveling
28. A Flick of the Wrist
29. The Makers Mark
30. Dead in the Water
31. Little Tragedy
32. No Man’s Land
33. The Way Marked
34. The Man of Many Parts
35. The Impossible Door
36. Cold as Hell
37. Telling the Time
38. The Dead Statue
39. A Day to Repair
40. Absent Friends
41. As the Crow Flies
42. After Pudding
43. Behind Edie
44. Old Friends, New Betrayals
45. Don’t Blink
46. Walkers Deal
47. The Bull’s Roar
48. Time to Go
49. The Hands of the Minotaur
50. London Labyrinth
51. The Bull and the Bullet
52. Death from Above
53. Black Tower
54. Tempered Steel
55. London Stone
56. Sacrifice
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