A boy, his dog and a monstrous friend.16-year-old Clayton Stonefly, who lost his parents four years ago and is being raised by his Granma Lina, just wants to be brave like Dammit, his dog, and face the town bully, Big Jim. That, or read Shakespeare on the porch alone in the Idaho wilderness.But Clay has an unfortunate he’s haunted by monstrous dreams of his family’s dead nemesis, Das Ungeheuer, and every time he tells a story, someone dies. That — and he just watched his friend, MK, suck the soul out of a man, leaving the man clawing at his chest.Who is MK anyway? Is Big Jim just a small town pastor, or something else? Something with insect eyes sacrificing boys to bring a greater evil? Is there a chance that Clay’s new friend, Penny — the one with the dark eyes and twisted smile — could be more than a friend? Clay learns that his parents kept many secrets from him — not the least being there’s a family calling that involves monster-wrangling, and a family axe with a mind of its own that may or may not be trying to talk to him.If you like Dark Fantasy and Magical Realism — if you love dogs and riddles, folktales and Shakespeare, the rivers and mountains of the West — then you'll enjoy this Naturalist Western Gothic.Fly Stone, Fly is soul music, it is the the further in you go the more you feel its thumping heart -Kwesi Dansonne“If Faulkner wrote fantasy, he'd have written something like this… unique, lyrical, and steeped in Americana folklife.” Sunyi Dean, author of The Book Eaters