A young boy, living quietly in a remote rural village. A chance encounter with another youngster, a day of youthful exuberance in the nearby river - and an unexpected, unprovoked attack by daemons...So begins Gabriel's adventure, his destiny to come face-to-face with the evil of Yorva, the Black Queen. It is a quest which takes him far from home on a journey fraught with peril from both human and magical assailants, and on a voyage of discovery into his own unrealised powers, his only companions his elderly teacher and his new friend. On their travels, their numbers are swelled by the enigmatic Hooded Man, the teenage son of a river-boatman - and a huge, black Gryphon...THUNDERCHILD is a story complete in itself - but it is the first of three books which will tell the greater story of Gabriel and his struggle with the forces of Evil in a world of the distant future, when mankind has returned to a simpler existence and the power of magic is once more a part of life. A legend of OUR distant future!First published in 2010 under his pen-name of Geoffrey Lewis, this is S G Miles' first foray into the field of fantasy writing. Owing more to J R R Tolkien than it does to J K Rowling, it is now revised and republished as a prelude to the release of the first sequel, LIGHTNINGMASTER.