The Stone of Blood

It's the beginning of an epic trilogy! The first in its series ...based upon true life stories and historical events. An action packed historical fiction novel!

"It is written that within all of us lies a destiny ...a single purpose to become who we are born to be." ~ Tony Nalley

*Review*"The book took me back to stories like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; written by Mark Twain I enjoyed so much as a young boy. The author has surely reached a plateau of success with his ingenious style or writing. I wish him the best in his writing career. I feel that he is well on his way."* ~ Robert M. Mc Mullan Sr. Spring Hill Studio

From the Author"I have been talking about sitting down and writing this book for a very long time. I have used so many excuses as to why I hadn't completed it yet. Excuses like getting married, getting divorced, raising my son or any number of other reasons related to not having the time to do it! But I find that as I get older, the days get shorter and time passes by more quickly. And as we are all only given a finite amount of time to walk upon the earth, I found that I had to just put my pen to paper or fingers to the keyboard as it were, before my time was through. I wasn't a bad kid growing up. At least as long as you don't ask my sister! But I was a kid like any other, whose stories and adventures were just as important to me as any of those found in a Mark Twain novel or in a Saturday afternoon matinee! Maybe they are not as fanciful with magical horses or buried pirate treasure, but they are just as worthy of bein' told!"

"My grandpa's stories are the main reason and focus of this book; the idea for it came from cassette tapes that I had recorded of him some thirty-five years ago. The stories within the chapter titled 'Of Witches Ghosts and Werewolves' are his. They were either told to him or he experienced them himself. He passed them on to me, and now I pass them on to you. I don't believe that anyone else in the whole world either recorded his telling of them or wrote them down for others to enjoy. And because of this, I am very blessed to share these with you now upon these pages."

"This book itself was written to compliment the telling of my grandfather's stories. I wanted them to be read in the same context as they were originally told; from my perspective at the time, a time when my imaginations were as real to me as my physical existence. While I based many of the events and characters within these pages upon real people and real life adventures, they are nothing more than a creative blend of fantasy mixed with truth; to add that touch of destiny that we all carry with us ...whether we believe we do or not. History is often written from the point of view of its writer. Thereby truth becomes intermingled with beliefs, myths and legends, leaving it to the reader to ascertain the difference."

"Perhaps my destiny was to write this story, while yours ...is to read it." ~ Tony Nalley