The Prince of Acadia & the River of Fire

Eco-Terrorists. Sabotage. Tanner's 6th grade summer vacation just got interesting...

Tanner LeBlanc thought he'd been punished enough. Spending two weeks of summer vacation repairing old lady Inglett's garden after a four-wheeler mishap. "Dad," Tanner pleaded, "it wasn't me."
Flummoxed by the feeble explanation from his twelve year-old son, Warren has an idea. He wants to test Tanner and his two closest friends with a 'rite of passage' adventure along the legendary River of Fire. With the assistance of an ex-Hollywood Special Effects man, Warren has crafted a series of challenges for Tanner and his friends Riley and Donovan. But what Warren didn't bank on was sharing his cause with an illegal mining operation.
When the boys conquer the first obstacle they discover their father's have been kidnapped and labeled as Eco-Terrorists. Should the boys alert the authorities or can they infiltrate the mining compound and expose the conspiracy for what it is?
Tanner manages to rally his friends with the help of a special talent: A talent that sees him connecting to the power of the spiritual world and unleashing the energy within.

The Prince of Acadia & the River of Fire is the first instalment in a series of middle grade rural fantasy novels. If you like mystery, a heaping of Huck Finn inspired adventure sprinkled with a dash of native mysticism, then you'll love Jason E. Hamilton's modern hero in the natural world.