Sculptor
Malaya Glyptis has spent a decade chasing a career that refuses to see her.
In a cramped Brooklyn studio, surrounded by failed sculptures and mounting debt, she is running out of time, money, and belief. Her final submission-her last chance at recognition-collapses in her hands hours before the deadline. The clay cracks. The form fails. And something inside her breaks with it.
Then a man appears at her door.
Adrien Vale offers her an impossible commission: create a series of masks unlike anything she has ever made-and be paid enough to change her life forever. The only condition is that she must not question the work.
Desperate, Malaya accepts.
What begins as opportunity becomes obsession.
The masks come easily. Too easily. They seem to shape themselves beneath her hands, their forms emerging from instinct rather than intention-faces caught between human and animal, beauty and distortion. As the work progresses, the world around her begins to change. Time slips. Her memories blur. Strange symbols appear on her skin. And the line between artist and creation begins to dissolve.
When Malaya is summoned to an underground gala beneath the city, she discovers the truth.
The masks are not art.
They are doors.
Beyond them waits the Wild Court-a realm where identity is fluid, transformation is power, and creation is never without cost. At its center stands the Faun King, an ancient force of beauty and predation who offers her everything she has ever wanted: recognition, immortality, and the power to shape reality itself.
But power in the Wild Court is not given. It is taken, negotiated, or consumed.
Refusing to become another hollow artist sacrificed to the system, Malaya makes a different choice. She doesn't kneel. She bargains.
And in doing so, she begins a transformation that will remake not only herself-but the city above.
As her influence spreads, New York fractures into something new: a living work of art shaped by her will. The old gods rise to resist her. The Wild Court demands loyalty. And the system that created her begins to reveal its true nature-one built on the consumption of desperate creators.
To survive, Malaya must decide what she is willing to become:
A creator.
A ruler.
Or something that no longer remembers what it means to be human.
Because in a world where art can reshape reality, the most dangerous creation... is the self.
SCULPTOR is a literary dark fantasy novel about transformation, power, and the cost of becoming in a world where creation and consumption are the same act.
For readers of Mexican Gothic, Annihilation, and The City We Became.
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