The Stone Bride

By Erik L Seabury

A warlord who murdered his wife to found his island kingdom carves a bride from the quarry that swallowed her, only to awaken a woman carrying every life he sacrificed to build his throne.

Ten years after Queen Isolde's death, Kaellan Maphuos still rules Kaphos from a throne built on white marble and buried crimes. In secret, the widowed king carves a bride in his wife's image and calls upon Vaenne, ancient goddess of stone and blood-debts, to return what death took from him.
The goddess answers.
But the woman who wakes is not Isolde. She calls herself Serath, and within her live the memories of every woman, worker, prisoner, and child sacrificed to raise Kaellan's kingdom. As the court declares her a miracle, a rival duke reaches for the throne, the king's son begins questioning everything he inherited, and Serath discovers the hands that shaped her are the same hands she remembers around a dying woman's throat.
Desired by men who see a bride, a weapon, or a path to power, Serath must decide whether vengeance will make her free or merely place her in another master's service. Her choice will break a dynasty, expose the graves beneath Kaphos, and force an entire kingdom to confront what it was willing to bury for peace.
She was carved to forgive him.
She woke remembering what he owed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HCXFRZZG
• ISBN13: 9798190569469
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"