Moonstone - J.W. Murray

Do you create destiny, or is fate predetermined? What if your entire family, both past and future, was guiding your life, placing you in a position to make one pivotal choice?

Set within a world of cloudships and birdmen, Moonstone is the story of a boy educated by the gods, then given the ultimate choice.

Orphaned Traiden plans to escape his island home of Carrillion for a life of adventure. When he's unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight of the queen, he's enlisted on a secret voyage to find the Moonstones, a weapon that can win the looming war against the Legion.

Along with seven other children, Traiden is introduced to Marek Jaad, a cloudship navigator who will guide them along the way. Marek, however, is far more than a cloudship captain. He's one of the Ko'journi, a group of nomadic mystics who frequent the skies of the Six Kingdoms. As the Legion pursues them, Traiden begins to understand that meeting Marek was no accident. The Ko'journi navigator has always been protecting him, and he will soon set Traiden on a path which will alter his awareness.

The first installment of The Winter's Twins Series, Moonstone combines the unpredictable world of aviation with the tragedy-laced quests of classical mythology.