Cracks in the Mason's Code

About this book

Seventeen-year-old Kesi Adair has always felt strange tremors beneath the streets of Ashenveil — vibrations no one else notices, humming up through curbs and stairwells like the city itself is breathing. When a six-story apartment block collapses overnight with no explanation, Kesi presses her hand to the rubble and is struck by fragmented visions: symbols etched into wet concrete decades ago, a woman's voice screaming warnings into bedrock, and glimpses of her own grandmother, young and afraid, sealing something beneath Harrow Street Station. Kesi is the first Groundreader born in eighty years, able to perceive the Masonry — the ancient magical lattice that keeps Ashenveil's buildings standing. But the deeper she reads, the more she suspects the Wardens Guild that maintains it has been hiding something for generations. Partnering with Tomás Vela, a former Warden apprentice expelled from his own neighborhood's ranks, Kesi follows cracked pillars, buried journals, and half-erased history through three tangled timelines to uncover why some districts thrive while others quietly crumble. As the answers pull her closer to her grandmother's forgotten fate and a citywide reckoning no one is prepared for, Kesi must decide what to do with a truth the powerful have buried for seventy years — before the ground gives out from under everyone she loves.

Book details

Genres:

Mystery, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult, Coming-of-Age

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-03

Content rating:

PG