Dr. James Hay always wanted to be in a find that would draw the attention of 
the world.  When a friend of his unearths an obelisk, a black stone proposed to 
be of alien origin he finally gets that attention and much more.

His excavation site is ripped by chaos.  Reporters swarm to Australia, fortune 
hunters invade his camp determined to steal information, the government wants 
to halt the digging, Aborigines gather for a scared ceremony and .

"The stone speaks in the language of the rock pictures. Your Dreaming totem 
sits upon them. You must go where it leads you. You must follow its songline to 
the secret place the stone leads you to." 

Taking the advice of an aborigine elder, Mick - a man he fondly calls, 
grandfather, Dr. Hay takes the obelisk, gathers together a mismatched band of 
adventurers and heads into the outback, " . to the only place I know that has 
anything like this strange black rock down south. We're going to the Glass 
House Mountains. It's a place where so many strange, unexplained things happen 
even the hardcore cynics are afraid to go there. It's also a place where a 
great many people disappear each year. They're never found or heard of again. 
That's where we're going."

It is a journey packed with inexplicable supernatural sightings whereby the 
harsh physical conditions of the outback seem minimal compared to the unseen 
forces that hinder the expedition.

Ariana Overton has skillfully whittled a detailed, intricate plot, geared to an 
ending that not only seeks to explain strange phenomenon (the existence of 
UFO's, bunyips and yowies) and a period of time in aboriginal history called 
Dreamtime, a period that precedes modern man, but carries a hopeful plan of 
saving mankind. 

Her strong, unique characters infuriate and bring smiles, their actions causing 
one to think about events in the present day; man's actions against nature and 
how his behavior or disregard for life may already be paving the way for a 
world catastrophe.
  
With Glass House being the first of the Glass House Trilogy, the story is left 
at a point that makes the reader eager for more - to follow through with the 
lives of the characters and to see if, and how the world plan may be brought to 
fruition.