The Stone Chronicles
The Stone Chronicles are an epic, Slavic-based fantasy trilogy that explores the cost of power and the fragile line between healing and harm. At its heart lies Altnir: the ancient, half-forgotten Source of All Magic who's spoken about in the old tales, feared by the people, and dismissed by mages and scholars as myth. But its power is real, and it threatens to unravel the world due to the excesses that the mages enjoy.
An early chapter appeared in the literary journal, The Write Launch. Following substantial revision, it now forms "Chapter Four" of the novel, The Stone's Healer.
When Josef and Nadia flee their blighted farm and seek
refuge in a remote village, they believe they have found safety. Instead, they
enter a community sustained by willful silence. Disappearances are accepted.
Curses are left unnamed. The land is protected by sacrifices no one admits to
making and no one dares to question.
Sacrifice is the price of survival. And upon the mountain,
ancient magic stirs, waiting for someone who can hear the call.
Nadia's emerging gift for healing draws the attention of
Mage Karl, a disgraced outcast who understands the village's bargain all too
well. Determined to reclaim his lost standing, he seeks the Source of All
Magic, even if it requires the village's continued suffering.
Expected publication date: June 2026
Boris, once the apprentice of the disgraced Mage Karl carries a truth the kingdom is unprepared to face. The old legends were not metaphor: Altnir exists, and magic itself has been corrupted by greed and control. Sent to the capitol by the Source, Boris becomes an unwilling messenger at the moment when belief turns dangerous.
What was once a fireside myth becomes a political weapon. The King's court, the Mage Council, and rival factions within both seize on Altnir's return to argue not whether magic should change, but who has the right to shape the future. As fear and ambition tighten their grip on the realm, Boris must navigate competing demands: loyalty to an ancient being who bound him to this task, and the truth that could shatter the existing order.
If he fails, the corruption spreading through the realm will not be confined to distant villages. It will unravel the kingdom itself.
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Book 3: The Stone's Choice
Adam, the child marked by Altnir, comes of age as the world begins to fracture. Magic flairs unpredictably, twisting spells and sickening those who wield it. What was once contained through silence and control now threatens to unravel entirely. At the center of the chaos stands Archemage Varyan, whose hunger for order masks a deeper obsession: to bind Altnir to his will, no matter the cost to the kingdom.
To stop him, Adam must confront the truth others have spent generations avoiding. Altnir is not a well of endless power to be claimed, but a living presence born at the dawn of creation, wounded by centuries of misuse. Healing magic means more than restoring the balance; it requires reckoning with the choices that shaped the world and the systems built to protect those choices.
Adam's final decision will determine whether magic can be healed or whether a world that refuses to change is finally allowed to fall.
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