Templar Eclipse at Runestone Hill

Jake Caron's life changes forever when he inherits a mystical relic from his father. The sixteen year old is transported to a world where he is forced to survive under the most inexplicable and dangerous circumstances. In this adventure story, readers will discover the good character and loyalty of a young man who is forced to live and survive with his ancestors. Experience what life was like for a Native American teen living in the wilderness five hundred years ago! Travel through time with Jake as he sets out on an unavoidable expedition back to a time when Native Americans ruled the forests, lakes and streams of the Upper Great Lakes area. In this somewhat romantic history-adventure novel, Gunn Sinclair takes young-hearted readers into the world of Native Americans, circa 1500, where Jake meets his grandfather, Great White Owl. Strangeness deepens as Jake attempts to uncover the truth about just who really left the Kensington Runestone out in the middle of nowhere, and why. How did it end up on Runestone Hill? Find out why Big Ole-the local hero of Viking lore-is nothing more than a "pretender" when it comes to claiming Alexandria, Minnesota as the Birthplace of America. Jake forges indelible bonds with Summer Flower, a beautiful Ottawa girl, and her brother, Brave Otter, but ultimately, the young warrior faces a monumental decision: should he try to return to the casualness and safety of his former life, or should he stay back in dangerous times and attempt to enjoy life with his new Algonquin friends? Ideally, readers will come away from this novel with a better understanding and appreciation for the unique problems Native Americans faced in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions at around the time of Christopher Columbus. Teens and adults alike are given a rare opportunity to experience what it must have been like to abandon oneself completely to wilderness living hundreds of years ago. But we need to keep in mind that the unrestrained manner of living experienced by young Jake Caron and others in this story sometimes led to unavoidable instances of violence and brutality, especially during times of warfare. The truth of the matter is that extreme wilderness living was sometimes harsh, but sometimes friendly, too. In this present case, everything will depend on what a young Native American from Minnesota will make of it.