The Stone Cutter, mockup, with HFC Book of the Year award

 

Book of the Year by Brock Meier

A Novel of Historical Fiction

In ancient Petra, an orphan rises as a gifted young sculptor. But love for a brilliant songstress, and a calamitous injury wreck his career. Desperate to reclaim his craft, he pursues a powerful and mysterious object buried beneath centuries of myth. His quest to the ends of the earth spirals into bondage to dark forces, and hopeless madness.

Brock Meier

Brock  Meier

STORYTELLER OF ANCIENT ARABIA

Join Brock Meier on his quest to re-live the gritty adventures, desperate trials, and sublime triumphs of real men and women living in the ancient Middle East—individuals only glimpsed in historical records, but now fleshed-out in Brock Meier’s living prose. Real people, real lives…

Brock Meier’s new historical fiction series, ≈ Waters In the Desert ≈ , was launched September 30, with the release of his debut novel The Stone Cutter. Set in the ancient Arabian desert kingdom of Nabataea (you know its capital as Petra, one of the New 7 Wonders of the World), the series will explore compelling stories suggested and inspired by written and material history.

The Stone Cutter is the award-winning inaugural book of Brock Meier’s new series. The novel reveals the twisting journey of Nahor, a young artist striving for success, while thirsting for love and belonging. Follow him in his doomed quest of love and ambition, awash in the glories of the fabulous Nabataean Kingdom.

—The Stone Cutter is a gripping tale of suspense, adventure, and romance, imbued with dark and bright magical realism—

 

 

—Short story now available—

“Zabibe, Son of Iamboulos”

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“Passion, possession, and the poison of ambition collide in Brock Meier’s debut novel.”