Teenager Tim Ryan comes into his own as he faces danger on a remote Australia island where magic lurks in land & sea Tim Ryan can&t shake the feeling that he is different from other teens & not in a good way For one thing he seems to have his own personal poltergeist that causes fires & sets him up to be arrested for shoplifting As a result Tim has been sent to live on a rundown farm on a remote island off the coast of Australia with his crazy grandmother a woman who seems to talk to the local spirits & who refuses to cushion Tim from facing his difficulties To make matters worse Tim is expected to milk cows chase sheep & hunt fish with a spear But he&s been exiled to an island alive with ancient magic—land magic that Tim can feel in his bones & sea magic that runs in his blood If Tim can face down the danger from drug-runners sea storms & the deadly threat of a seal woman who wishes to steal him away for a lingering death in the land of Faery he may be able to claim the mysterious changeling heritage that is his birthright & take hold of a legacy of power beyond any he has ever imagined Meet the Author Dave Freer is an ichthyologist turned author who lives on Flinders Island (between mainland Australia & Tasmania) with his wife four dogs & four cats & two sons He has coauthored a range of novels with Eric Flint (Rats Bats & Vats The Rats the Bats & the Ugly Pyramid Scheme Pyramid Power & Slow Train to Arcturus) with Mercedes Lackey & Eric Flint (The Shadow of the Lion This Rough Magic The Wizard of Karres Much Fall of Blood Burdens of the Dead & Freer’s solo entry in the series A Mankind Witch) as well as writing the Dragon’s Ring fantasy novels Dragon’s Ring & Dog & Dragon