Bloodstone

The curse is broken. The beast is gone. And Verity Magnolia is learning that freedom can look an awful lot like a different kind of trap.

The Binding Death - Zeus's final act before his capture - is branded into her wrist, drawing her life force to his with every passing hour. September Zamfir promised to walk the world for her. That promise is now a race across 1887 America and toward Ireland, where Hades alone holds the key to breaking the bond.

Getting there means navigating the Appalachian mountains, the territory of rogue shifters, and the hospitality of gods who have complicated opinions about the children Zeus left behind. It means riding a flying air schooner into dragon-contested skies. It means assembling, without quite intending to, one of the strangest companies ever to ride out of Georgia: a werelion Golden Warden, the goddess Artemis, a little girl who may be the missing daughter of Hades and Persephone, and a Cryptik half-brother with a unicorn's stubbornness and a revolutionary's appetite.

At the Gehrig Workshop, Sunny Zamfir is learning to be a Tinker with one arm and one clockwork replacement, building toward a journey he isn't going to stay behind for.

And Zeus is healing. Poseidon has opinions about ships crossing his ocean. The clock started the moment he escaped Tartarus.

Bloodstone: The God's Ransom is a gaslamp historical paranormal fantasy novel for adult readers - Book 2 of the Boons and Banes series. Set in 1887 America, it expands the world of Blood Diamonds into a transatlantic adventure driven by mythology, magic, and a slow-burn romance that earns every step.