The Lydian Stone Series

Volume 3: The Boats

2026-02-20T00:00:00Z

Volume 3: The Boats #

Production quickly outpaces logistics. In The Boats, landlocked by bandits and debt, the Sixteen Houses are forced to take their engines to the water, building a steam-powered fleet to bypass the ash-choked roads. As their smoke stains the horizon, it catches the eye of the state. Rome has come to collect the arrears. The war for the future has begun.

Volume 2: The Engine Of Empire

2026-02-20T00:00:00Z

Volume 2: The Engine Of Empire #

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In issue #2, The Engine of Empire, Marcus and his master, Gaius, find themselves facing disaster after Pompeii's destruction. With most of their wool workers dead or injured and the wool rotting in warehouses, the entire Campania region is sliding toward ruin and starvation. Desperate for a solution, Marcus turns to Ulysses. They use new designs to build the first machines, allowing the survivors to work much faster than ever before. They save the community, but the massive scale of the new industry creates a surplus that the old world wasn't built to handle.

Volume 1: Contact

2026-02-20T00:00:00Z

Volume 1: Contact #

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In this first issue, we meet Ulysses, a worn-down archaeology student digging in the dust of Pompeii, desperate to find something meaningful. Instead, he uncovers something impossible, a stone that bridges two timelines. Suddenly he's speaking with Marcus, an educated slave who lives just days before the city is doomed by fire and ash. As their connection grows, Ulysses faces a painful choice: intervene to save Marcus, knowing it could destroy the present as he knows it, or stand by and watch history unfold.