The Nine Pound Hammer is a book for those who crave adventure, or just love adventure books. The main character, Ray Fleming, leaps from a moving train to follow the magnetic pull of his father's lodestone. He encounters magics told of only in tales that took place long ago. Ray's father vanishing, The Gog's evil forces , everything comes together in one gigantic whirlwind of excitement and adventure.
Cylin Busby is a regular nine-year-old girl with a perfectly ordinary family. Her father, John, is a police officer working for the town of Falmouth, New Jersey. Her mother is a med student. Her two brothers are stuck in their middle school lives. While John was driving to work one day, someone leveled an untraceable shotgun at his window, which leaves his lower jaw dangling off of his face, and provides a horrific foretaste of the Busbys' life thereafter.
