Introduction to The DANNY QUADRILOGY by Chancery Stone

DANNY Volume 1

DANNY Volume 1 is the first book in the DANNY QUADRILOGY and sets the scene for us in the distinctly non-picturesque West coast of rural Cumbria, where farming rests cheek by jowl with industrial ports and open-cast coal mines. It is 1984 and Danny, the eponymous hero, is about to turn twenty.

Danny is the youngest son in the disturbingly dysfunctional Jackson Moore family, a family that is held in a kind of reverential awe - and more than a little fear. Fear of their rapidly declining drunken father. Fear of John, the eldest brother, whose temper is legendary. Fear of Ian whose insidious envy has led to more unhappiness than anyone can imagine. Even fear of Danny, the youngest, whose supernatural beauty unsettles as many people as it captivates.

It soon becomes apparent that there are some old dangerous resentments, and even older dangerous desires, festering behind the carefully constructed facade of this family's life.

When a sudden violent event opens the floodgates, the brothers start to engage in a monstrous game of one-upmanship, determined to outrank each other in acts of more and more outrageous behaviour where bravado is taken to psychotic lengths.

With Ian egging them on the game is soon taken outside the previously unbreachable family walls, allowing outsiders - acolytes of Danny's beauty, jealous of John's power, and foolishly determined to wrest it from him - to enter into the affray with no idea of what dangerous waters they are swimming.

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