Of Porcelain and Bone

By J.B. Rown

In a city where magic is control and flesh is machinery, freedom has a price written in bone.

The Order of the Unblemished has perfected their art: transform bodies into porcelain, minds into circuits, and resistance into memory. Their Weaver's Needle broadcasts a Frequency that turns humanity into living architecture-smooth, pure, and absolutely obedient.

Those who refuse the transformation are marked as Blemished. Their crime? Choosing weight over perfection. Reality over purity. Freedom over light.

Oak is a seven-foot healer who's sworn never to become a weapon.

But when the Order begins converting refugees into living circuits, Oak must break every oath he's made. The only way to ground the stolen vitality of an entire city is to become its foundation-to absorb its weight into his own body, to transform into the anchor that holds while the world breaks free.

With a halfling thief who reads trajectories in silver scars, a gnome mathematician who turns magic into engineering, and a half-elf bard whose songs can shatter porcelain saints, Oak infiltrates the Needle's heart. But the Order's power isn't just vast-it's inside them. In their blood. In their bones.

The resistance will crack the city's perfect surface. The revolution will cost everything. And Oak will discover that some foundations are built from sacrifice, not stone.

For readers who love:
Unique magic systems with mechanical precision
Found family facing impossible odds
Body autonomy as political resistance
Bittersweet victories that leave scars
Oppressive empires toppled from within

Of Porcelain and Bone is a dark fantasy novella about the weight of freedom, the price of resistance, and what it means to become the foundation others stand on.

Perfect for fans of The Traitor Baru Cormorant and Gideon the Ninth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GP6ZNLDK
• ISBN13: 9798248668588
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"