Stone and Sea is a fantasy novel written by Graham Edwards

Graham Edwards (writer)

Graham Edwards is an English author of fantasy and crime novels. His most popular books have generally featured dragons as their central characters....

. The novel was first published in 2000 by Voyager Books (UK) and HarperPrism (US). It is the second book in the Stone trilogy, which also includes Stone and Sky

Stone and Sky

Stone and Sky is a fantasy novel written by Graham Edwards. The novel was first published in 1999 by Voyager Books and HarperPrism . It is the first book in the Stone trilogy, which also includes Stone and Sea and Stone and Sun...

 and Stone and Sun

Stone and Sun

Stone and Sun is a fantasy novel written by Graham Edwards. The novel was first published in 2001 by Voyager Books and HarperPrism . It is the third book in the Stone trilogy, which also includes Stone and Sky and Stone and Sea...

. The trilogy is a follow-up to Edwards' Ultimate Dragon Saga trilogy, and is loosely connected via various plot threads.

Plot summary

The book further covers the adventures of Jonah Lightfoot, a man stolen from his own world when he witnesses the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa

Krakatoa

Krakatoa is a volcanic island made of a'a lava in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. The name is used for the island group, the main island , and the volcano as a whole. The island exploded in 1883, killing approximately 40,000 people, although some estimates...

. He and his unwitting companions cross the world of Amara

Amara (Stone trilogy)

Amara, also known as Stone, is the fictional world in British fantasy author Graham Edwards' Stone trilogy. To the series' protagonists Jonah Lightfoot and Annie West, Amara first seems to be a giant, never-ending stone wall, stretching on into the imperceptible distance in all directions. The wall...

, a vertical landscape where to fall from the world's surface is to die, or worse. They find a massive ocean, somehow held in place without the water falling into the abyss, and must then figure out a way to cross it. On their journey they discover the true nature of Amara

Amara (Stone trilogy)

Amara, also known as Stone, is the fictional world in British fantasy author Graham Edwards' Stone trilogy. To the series' protagonists Jonah Lightfoot and Annie West, Amara first seems to be a giant, never-ending stone wall, stretching on into the imperceptible distance in all directions. The wall...

; meet mermaid

Mermaid

A mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature with a female human head, arms, and torso and the tail of a fish. A male version of a mermaid is known as a "merman" and in general both males and females are known as "merfolk"...

s, forest spirits and shapeshifting creatures; cross paths with dragon

Dragon

A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that feature in the myths of many cultures. There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern...

s both good and evil; delve into a world built of memory; and stumble across artifacts from Earth's past, present, and future.

External links

• Official author's website
• Loving Dragoncharm (fansite)
• Excerpt from Stone and Sea (PDF format)