Mirabelle Carré has always believed her strange gift was something wondrous.

The kingdom of Meirune believes otherwise. Confined within Willowgrove, Mira is subjected to treatments meant to rid her of the power she was born with. But their efforts are failing, and the more they try to suppress her gift, the stronger it seems to become. As the physicians grow more determined, Mira begins to realize that the people responsible for her care may be far more interested in what she can do than in setting her free.

Beyond the city walls, Aedan d’Aertagne has problems of his own.

Young, inexperienced, and determined to earn his place among hardened men, he rides with a company of the City Watch sent to investigate a growing number of disappearances in the countryside. The trail leads them to abandoned farms, slaughtered livestock, and signs of something no one can explain. And in the empty places between settlements, something no one has seen before is waiting.

As Aedan’s company follows the trail deeper, survival extracts a terrible cost. In Avinesse, Mira discovers that escape may be her only chance to remain herself. And above them both, the rulers of Meirune confront threats along the coast while ambition, fear, and old rivalries begin to fracture the kingdom from within.

Neither Mira nor Aedan understands how the dangers closing around them are connected—or that their answers may lie in a catastrophe the world has spent centuries trying to forget.

Their paths lead them to confront a crisis older than any kingdom, its answers buried in the ruins of a vanished age.

Because the Shattering was never truly over. And the world is beginning to break again.

Memory and Stone is Book One of The Shattering, a character-driven epic fantasy of buried history, dangerous power, and a world still reckoning with what came before.