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The Truth in Stone
When the old world shattered, London's nine broken sectors became a city of silence. Among the ruins is Aly, a fifteen-year-old who gathers fragments of glass and shiny things, believing beauty can still be found. She does not yet know that her collecting will one day fulfil the prophecy whispered by the mysterious Jin Toma -- when the Truth in Stone will be revealed.
Watching over her is Mara, whose guarded heart resists hope, and Kade, a brash survivor whose humour unsettles Mara as much as it steadies those around her. Around them gather voices of faith, memory, and loss -- each carrying a piece of a story larger than themselves.
With lyrical prose and immersive worldbuilding, All the Broken Things begins not with spectacle, but with quiet acts of endurance and wonder. It is the first step in a mythic saga that will grow more dangerous, more action-driven, and yet never lose the quality of its telling.
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Mara tends the living and buries the dead, but she has stopped believing in anything beyond survival. Aly refuses to accept that -- she scavenges feathers, glass, buttons, and other bright scraps, naming each treasure and holding fast to the idea that beauty still matters. When she discovers a mute boy named Jonah, her fragments become more than keepsakes. They begin to form a mosaic of meaning that no one, not even Aly, can yet see.
Around them move other lives: Sister Luma, carrying faith into the shadows; Evie, whose gift with herbs borders on the uncanny; and Samuel, a fading writer who insists that every story is really about love. And when Kade arrives on horseback with medicine and a grin, his irreverent humour cracks the silence Mara has built around herself.
But it is Jin Toma's prophecy that threads these lives together: the girl who gathers fragments will one day reveal the Truth in Stone. In Aly's hands, what begins as shards becomes something greater -- a fallen city's hidden legacy rising from ruin.
All the Broken Things is a haunting, slow-burn introduction to The Seven Wings of London, an epic series where myth and memory intertwine, and where every shard of beauty is a rebellion against despair. For readers of Station Eleven and The Last Migration, this is not just a story of survival, but of prophecy, resilience, and the luminous things worth fighting for.
Includes a book club discussion guide for readers who want to explore its themes of memory, myth, and quiet rebellion together.
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