The One Who Remains
Book One of the Stone Sentinel Trilogy
In the dark basement of Kyiv's scientific archive, Olena Karpenko discovers a notebook no one was meant to find - one that whispers, writes back, and moves on its own. As forgotten expedition reports resurface, so do the shadows they once stirred.
Across the city, Maksym Verba - ex-soldier turned historian - uncovers the same name, the same secrets, and a symbol that haunts his dreams.
Their fates converge around a lost expedition to the Carpathians in 1925, where silence was a warning, and stone could remember blood.
Bound by dreams, history, and something far older than either, Olena and Maksym must follow the echoes of the past - or risk becoming part of it.
A chilling, lyrical debut from Volodymyr Savchuk,
blends suspense, folklore, and slow-burning mystery in the haunting heart of Eastern Europe.