Marble Pulse
Eamon Roca
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Add to basketMarble Pulse | Eamon Roca | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Antillas Publishing House | EAN 9798233602771 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.
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In the canyon city of Monolith, silence is not peaceful. It is a symptom.
A plague known as "The Calcification" is sweeping through the population, turning flesh into living marble. The infected do not die; they trap themselves inside their own hardening bodies, conscious but frozen forever.
Renna is a Sculptor-Surgeon. In a city where art is survival, she wields chisels and diamond files not to create beauty, but to perform "Maintenance." Her job is to carve away the excess stone growth from the joints of the infected elite, buying them a few more years of movement before the inevitable "Lock-In." She is precise, clinical, and smells permanently of granite dust and vinegar.
Bram is a Gargoyle. An elite soldier whose body is 90% calcified, he is a walking fortress of heavy grey stone. To the world, he is an invincible weapon. But in the privacy of Renna's workshop, he is a man terrified of the quiet. He hires her for nightly sessions, enduring the agony of having his own armor stripped away just to feel the freedom of movement for one more day.
The dynamic is a brutal intimacy: Bram is the hardest thing in the world, and Renna is the only one who can break him. But as her chisel meets his stone night after night, they discover that the Calcification isn't a disease. It's a harvest. And the city doesn't want to cure the statues; it wants to wake them up.
Now, Renna must decide: keep carving Bram to save the man he is, or let the stone take him completely to unleash the monster the city fears.
He is the stone. She is the chisel. Loving him means breaking him apart.
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