"What would you do with a stone that heals anything? Make money? Keep yourself alive? Keep your family alive? I have that stone, a simple-looking thing. It's been in my family for generations. My father told me to do no harm lest I break the charm. My father's dead. My mother, too. My uncle would kill for this stone. He has killed for it. He tried to kill me for it.

So, I ran. I live on the streets of Toledo to stay in the shadows and heal as many as I can. But they found me-the ones who created the stone." ~ Francisco, Medieval Spain, Year of our Lord 1212 The Shadows of Time Series "The Healing Stone" is the first book in my "Shadows of Time" series, an epic saga of a temporal war that began in an alternate history. Soldiers from a future conflict used time travel as a weapon, altering Earth's history, only to become trapped in the past. This group split into competing factions and fought down the centuries over control of our timeline. The Key'ari have disguised themselves as gods to create utopia. The Sittiri seek to mend the broken timelines by shaping events from the shadows.

Now, in A.D. 1212, the war for control of time reaches a crucial moment. At the heart of this struggle is Francisco, a young man who wields a mysterious healing stone. He has no idea he is one of six recruits foretold to end the war. As both factions are trying to win him over, Francisco must navigate the line between healer and warrior, faith and doubt, and choose a side in a war that spans millennia. The "Shadows of Time" series explores how history, faith, and destiny intertwine, as six unlikely heroes emerge to end a conflict that threatens to unravel the continuum and destroy Earth itself.