The Heartstone Awakens - Carrie Ray

The light is dying. The Shadow is hungry. And the Heartstone has finally stirred.

In the fractured realm of Aethelgard, the sun is no longer a provider of life-it is a fading memory. As a creeping, unnatural frost begins to swallow the horizon, the ancient legends of the Heartstone are no longer stories told to children. They are the only hope for survival.

Ryn never asked to be a hero. She just wanted to survive the night. But when she discovers the pulse of a long-dormant power beneath the mountain, she is thrust into a race against an entity that has been waiting in the dark for eons.

Alongside a band of unlikely allies-the steadfast Thane, the mysterious Korr, and the fierce Mira-Ryn must navigate a landscape of shifting loyalties and ancient traps. Their destination: the jagged summit of the Sun-Spire. Their mission: to reignite a ritual that was twisted into a death knell centuries ago.

One spark of light. Four broken heroes. A world on the edge of the void.

In a journey where every step costs blood and every secret weighs like stone, the group will discover that the greatest threat isn't the Shadow outside-it's the darkness waiting to be unleashed from within the stone itself.