The Black Diamond (The Harlie Series Book 2)

It’s more than the gold they’re after; and the war-child knows that by now. There’s something else... something old and wonderful, and mysterious; something that ‘came down from the deep, dark heavens’. It’s what Red-Beard’s been looking for all along. And he finds it at the end of a long dark tunnel, just like Homer Skinner did so many years ago. In a final cataclysmic event perpetrated by Red-Beard himself, they all die; all, that is, except for Elmo Cotton, the Harlie. He alone escapes with the secret intact, and something else he lifts from the cold dead hands of Colonel Rusty ‘Red-Beard’ Horn. It’s the black diamond; a mysterious stone said to hold the secret to everlasting life. Some call it the ‘Motherstone’. And it will drive the war-child even closer to his destiny… and the truth.