Stone Falls

Detroit, 1926. The dead don't stay buried. Neither does the Judge. Decades after the bloody reckoning in Alamosa, Judge Isaac Hobart Stone is still alive. He shouldn't be. Bound by a bargain struck on the other side of death itself, Stone and his wife Martha have built a quiet empire of diners stretching across the country, hiding in plain sight while he carries out his true calling: guiding lost souls away from damnation. But when the great Harry Houdini dies in a Detroit hospital and the building shakes itself apart, something ancient and terrible rips through the boundary between worlds. The dead are rising. And this time, they aren't looking for help. As a supernatural plague of soulless creatures sweeps across America, burning cities to ash and reducing civilization to ruin, Stone is thrust into an impossible war fought across collapsing timelines. Joined by unlikely allies, including fallen angels struggling to understand what it means to be human, a con man desperate to redeem himself, and the steadfast ghost of Jack Abbott who keeps showing up at the wrong point in time, Stone must navigate a reality that folds back on itself, where the choices he makes ripple forward and backward through history. But the closer he gets to the source of the unraveling, the more he realizes that the battle isn't just for the world. It's for the very nature of justice itself. From the fog-choked streets of Prohibition-era Detroit to the burning shores of the Great Lakes, from the ruins of Dodge City to a final confrontation at the threshold of creation, Stone is forced to answer a question that has haunted him across lifetimes. Can justice be handed down from on high, or must it be chosen freely, even at the risk of everything? The answer will cost him more than his life. It will cost him every life he has ever lived, and demand that he walk back into the one place he swore he would never return: the mass grave of a Civil War prison camp, where his story began. The world is ending. The world is beginning. And Judge Isaac Hobart Stone is the only man stubborn enough to make sure it gets done right. Even if he has to do it all over again. Stone Falls is the sweeping, time-bending sequel to Blood and Stone, a supernatural epic that expands from gritty Western into apocalyptic horror, cosmic mythology, and a meditation on free will. For fans of Stephen King's The Dark Tower and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, this is a story about one man's refusal to let the darkness win, no matter how many lifetimes it takes.