"We, as a people, are defiant. To live is to fight a series of dissents against death."

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Deep beneath Anurbara, the soil glows with the world’s most coveted, yet deadliest substance and Maddox Vodav, being a miner, knows the most important rule—don’t breathe Pure Vim. But, in a moment of panic, he makes a fatal choice… Death, however, is not his end. In the world beyond, a beautiful siren with moonstone eyes—eyes like his—calls to him and he is resurrected.

His survival is impossible. His existence is a threat.

When whispers of the boy who breathed Vim spread, Maddox is named the prophesied heir of the Legend of Edom—becoming harbinger of a great power lost to time when the god vanished. With his mother’s last words, “don’t look back,” driving him, Maddox is doomed to a destiny which is veiled in divine secrets and mortal plans. Awakened by the Vim, able to see beyond the senses, he realizes the world through which he traverses is not alive and something essential has been forgotten—something he must uncover before he makes the wrong choice…again.

Once choice can change the future. 

Revenge fuels him. While he treks through cities enslaved by the Company, the Commander’s Watchers hunt him. On his odyssey through the desert, the siren haunts his dreams. And through the cruelest moments of fate, his mother’s stories hold him as he embraces the savior's title—Prodigal. But when he meets the girl with moonstone eyes, Anya, Maddox is pulled into a whole new world of deception, fate, magic, and love—a love which transcends time.

It is an infinite myth. It is the human story—a story of love and a story of providence.

This is not a new story, but one uniquely retold. 

Blending political intrigue, morally complex characters, atmospheric world-building, Gothic themes, mythology, supernatural elements, and romance in the vein of Orpheus & Eurydice, THE HEART OF STONE—a dark fantasy at approximately 119,000 words—will appeal to fans of Red Rising, Our Infinite Fates, and Heir—as well as to readers craving a return to epic quests, dystopian settings, and godly heroes.