All stories start somewhere... This one starts here and now, but really began an eternity ago in a forgotten place and time when a young man and a young woman made a promise to each other. Now, an Old One desperately wants the two young people to remember their promise. He is master of the Travelers, a unique group of animals with whom he communicates mind to mind. While he has groomed the Travelers for a special destiny, he knows he will not see the task to its end. That responsibility must fall to the Shepherds - the promised couple who will take on this mission and make the extraordinary sacrifice it requires. Would that time were a friend, not an enemy, and these two could discover their promise in the leisure of the normal pace of life, but that is not to be. Both the Shepherds and the Travelers are fair game to a demon, commissioned by the Master of Hell, himself, to destroy the Old One and everything he loves. Beyond this, a disaster of epic proportions looms and threatens to reel the entire world into chaos. The Shepherds must be sealed and the Travelers led to safe haven before the world goes mad. There is so little time. The Storm is coming.

Naipaul’s first work of travel writing is a deft and remarkably prescient account of his journey in 1960 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad.

It was a warm summer afternoon when Bill and his little sister Nell headed out with their fishing poles and snacks for the little pond in the meadow. "Be home in time for supper," Mother called as she waved goodbye. Later that afternoon while sitting beneath a shade tree eating their snacks, they spied off in the distance a rusted old steam engine with a caboose attached behind. On exploring it further, they encounter unexpected events that prevent them from ever making it home in time for supper. Enjoy this mixture of adventure, fantasy, suspense and Christian morals all in one as you follow Bill and Nell through their adventures into the unknown.