Stone and Bone
Dr. Eliana Voss has spent her career proving the impossible has an ordinary explanation. Then a DNA sample crosses her desk that shouldn't exist—a genetic sequence tied to a "mineral substrate" with no known origin, n...
Dr. Eliana Voss has spent her career proving the impossible has an ordinary explanation. Then a DNA sample crosses her desk that shouldn't exist—a genetic sequence tied to a "mineral substrate" with no known origin, no known relatives, and no rational place in the tree of life. When the mysterious Helix Institute offers her a research fellowship at a remote sanctuary in the Scottish Highlands, Ellie tells herself she's chasing the science. She isn't chasing a legend. She isn't prepared for what's waiting in the mountains. Behind the walls of a fortress that looks like a research station and feels like something far older, Ellie discovers a species science has never documented: gargoyles—ancient, intelligent, and dying. Chief among them is a guardian who has watched over the mountain in silence for three hundred years, and who was never supposed to let a human close enough to see him at all. As Ellie is drawn deeper into a hidden world of secrecy, treaties, and a centuries-old organization with its own agenda, she and the guardian find something neither expected: a connection that defies every rule keeping their two worlds apart. But the sanctuary is under threat, the gargoyles' survival hangs on a genetic mystery only Ellie can solve, and the truth Helix has been hiding may be more dangerous than the monsters themselves.