The earth has been humming since she was six years old.

Naeryn Vaelora knows that hum the way she knows darkness and the taste of iron dust. It is a secret pulse beneath a world that would kill her for hearing it. For a century, the Order has methodically erased the ancient magic of the body, and so Naeryn survives the brutal mines of Fréamh in silence, knowing the weight of a pickaxe better than her own history.

But memory sleeps beneath stone, and the earth keeps a record of everything.

When a forbidden mark burns itself into her flesh, written in a language scoured from history, the survival she has so carefully built begins to unravel. She has reached her limit. And she refuses to back down.

Guided by the relentless hum in her blood, Naeryn descends into the Forge: an ancient, shifting labyrinth of primordial caverns and bone buried beneath the mines, where a rebellion waits in the shadows and a terrifying, glorious magic is ready to be stitched back into human flesh.

But the deep holds other predators. To move through the dark, Naeryn must tangle with a master manipulator bound to the very forces that keep her people in chains: a beautifully wounded mind who trades in secrets and shifting loyalties. Their collision sparks a lethal friction that blurs every line between hatred, control, and desire.

Naeryn uses her body the way she uses everything else: to survive, and to cope. Some of what happens in the dark is violence. Some of it is chosen. The line between them is the whole story.

As buried truths claw toward the surface, Naeryn must decide how much of her humanity she'll sacrifice to survive the descent, and how much of herself she must unearth to expose the lies that built her world.

The Order is closing in. The stone is alive. And the Forge is demanding its blood.

Some secrets are buried for a reason. The only question is what crawls back out.

Unearthing: Blood & Bone is Book One of The Frequencies of Eden: A Seven-Part Dissection, a dark, somatic high-fantasy romance for readers of Jennifer L. Armentrout, Carissa Broadbent, and H. D. Carlton. Slow-burn, morally gray, and unflinching.

Content note: for adult readers; contains explicit content and depictions of abuse, violence, and trauma.