Bloodstone - Paperback - 9798262501960

Malaya Stephenson has spent years watching her artistic dreams crumble-rejected by galleries, dismissed by critics, ignored by a world that doesn't recognize her talent. But when she inherits her estranged uncle's decrepit studio in the city's forgotten industrial district, everything changes.The studio holds secrets darker than the shadows that fill its crumbling walls. Each night, Malaya's crude clay sculptures are mysteriously transformed into masterworks of impossible beauty-art so lifelike it seems to breathe. The truth emerges from cracks in the walls: ancient creatures with stone-carved faces and obsidian eyes, artisans who have perfected their craft over centuries of patient work.Their price is simple: blood.At first, they ask for only drops. But as Malaya's reputation grows and critics hail her as a revolutionary genius, the demands escalate. Her collaborators hunger for more than her blood-they crave the flesh and consciousness of those who come seeking to understand her work. Visitors to her studio disappear without trace, their essence absorbed into sculptures so perfect they challenge the boundaries between art and life.Caught between her desperate ambition and growing horror, Malaya must choose: flee back to obscurity like her uncle before her, or embrace the darkness completely. With each sacrifice, each victim transformed into eternal beauty, she moves closer to achieving everything she's ever dreamed of-and closer to discovering what happens when the artist becomes the art.

• | Author: Amy Wertz
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Aug 27, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 142 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-13: 9798262501960