The Warm Stone

In Karro, the stone plague does not kill. It takes people where they stand — a baker with his hands in the dough, a mother mid-sentence — and leaves them warm, silent, and dreaming inside the stone.

Tam Arden is fourteen, a stone-cutter's son who can read granite the way other boys read faces. When Bram the baker freezes in the middle of the market, Tam is the only one who hears him scream. The Registry calls it stillness. Tam knows better: the dreamers are awake in there, and they are building something.

The Warm Stone is Book One of The Stone Plague, a six-book fantasy mystery about the boy who hears the stone, the father who vanished into it twelve years ago, and Corin, the Registrar of Stone, who has been expecting Tam for a very long time. Book One is free.