Lines in Stone 1: The Day the Sky Lost Its Name

In a remote border fortress, the young scribe Lio finds a messenger boy dead in the chapel. No battlefield slaughter, no dramatic wound. Only a fine cut across his throat and a strange mark in the stone



Two lines, almost touching. Simple. And yet it feels as if the wall is looking back.



While Lio tries to understand what has awakened in Torhall, the singer Nyra in the capital city of Arelion feels a new tone under the old hymns. In the lower quarters more and more people suddenly wear the same mark on their skin. A preacher with a voice that is far too pleasant promises an eighth voice for all those who never felt seen by the seven familiar faces of the gods.



Out at sea, Captain Sarin follows a trail of rumours, scars and dead eyes. In a round room full of maps, Arthel Verran watches his lines close in on a point he never drew. The same symbol appears everywhere and everywhere people feel that something is searching their thoughts for a name.



Something in the stone has woken up. It listens. It collects anger, pain and unanswered prayers. It wants a name and it wants to be spoken into the world through human mouths.



On a single day beneath the great temple dome, four people make the same choice. They say no. And with that begins a quiet war between a hungry new power and those who refuse to give it their voices and their bodies.



Lines in Stone Book One is the beginning of a dark fantasy series about faith, power, guilt, desire and betrayal. A world of cities, fortresses and harbours where no one is truly innocent and where a single quiet no can change more than an army.



This book is for you if you enjoy stories with



• a dark atmosphere without simple heroes

• intrigue, cracked temples and power games in taverns

• characters who fail, fall and still keep going

• a new god that does not fall from the sky, but grows from the fractures of the world



Welcome to a world where even the stone is listening.



A dark fantasy novel about a new god waking in the cracks of stone and human hearts, and four ordinary people who must learn to say no at the one moment that truly matters.