The Prodigal — Clark Rich Burbidge

A great shadow threatens to overwhelm not only the people, but a thousand years of Giant service and perhaps the Giants themselves. The future of the land depends on three young prodigals and an aging hero, ill prepared for the demands they must face. Their personal struggles, self-imposed isolation, and deep feelings of disconnection and misunderstanding must be set aside, for they are the land's only true hope. Book Two of the Giants series follows Thomas, as a much older man now serving as the Land's Forest Ward, and two of his grandchildren, seventeen-year-old Tommy and thirteen-year-old Rose.They are unexpectedly caught up in a struggle for the survival of their people and their way of life. The sudden disapearaance of Rose shocks them from a complacent and distracted life. Thomas, Tommy, and a band of lost prodigals are placed on a dangerous path toward destiny or destruction. Though unprepared, they are all that stands between hope for the future and loss of all they hold dear.Join our heroes in a desperate search for one they love, taken by fierce despots bent on enslaving the land. Can the giants step in or are they helpless to prevent it? How far will the evil go before a response is possible? Can it be stopped at all? Great secrets wrapped in impossible delimmas are revealed that make the giants more mysterious that imagined.