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Series 2

The Thirteenth Stone

A Temple fell. A stone survived. An oath outlived them both.

A young Temple scribe escapes the burning of the Second Temple carrying the nofech — the stone of Judah — and swears an oath over it in the last minute before Jerusalem ends. A seven-book historical epic that follows the stone and the people bound to it across two millennia.

Genre
Literary Historical Epic
Setting
70 CE – present — Judea, Nehardea, Pumbedita, and beyond
Tone
Yourcenar's patience, Eco's engine, Dara Horn's inheritance.
Progress
0 of 7 books live

Books in the series

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Book 1

The Oath of Ash

POV · Yonatan ben Elyakim

70 CE. A young Temple scribe named Yonatan ben Elyakim escapes the burning of the Second Temple carrying the nofech — the stone of Judah from the High Priest's breastplate — and swears an oath over it in the last minute before Jerusalem ends. A Roman centurion swears a second oath across the same stone. Yonatan flees east, settles in Nehardea, and slowly, over two centuries and three empires, discovers that his oath has bound him to a life he does not know how to live.

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Book 2

The Barbarian Road

The second volume of the seven-book epic. The stone travels west. The oath does not soften.

In progress