Throne of Tainted Veins
Paperback
FantasyMystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Oussama Akbi
Published: Jan 9 2026
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Can a man save himself when his own body turns to stone? In the industrial nightmare of Var-Kora, the Throne of Tainted Veins dictates who lives and who bleeds. Kaelen Thorne, a disgraced surgeon, is slowly calcifying into a living statue due to the ravages of Stone Sickness. Desperate for a cure, he hunts the legendary Vein of Silver, a biological artifact rumored to purify blood. To reach it, Kaelen must infiltrate a sadistic blood-aristocracy led by the zealous High Vicar Malachi, who plans to drain the city to awaken a slumbering god. This dark fantasy novel plunges readers into a post-industrial age where the human body is a commodity and survival demands sacrifice. As Kaelen navigates the hedonistic court culture and hydraulic depths of the Ossuary City, he realizes his illness is a tool of the regime. With his leg turning to granite, Kaelen must choose: become a permanent monument to his failure or shatter the corrupt dynasty to survive.
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