Stone Mason
Ridge Road
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Narrated by:
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Mary Zajac
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By:
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V.M. Merrick
About this listen
Stone Mason is a quiet, pressure-driven novel about work that cannot be rushed and choices that cannot be undone.
When traveling stonemason Silas Vance takes a winter job on a failing mountain ranch, he expects cold, isolation, and hard labor. What he doesn’t expect is a house that is actively losing its argument with the earth—or a woman who has chosen to stay when everyone else has walked away.
As frost heave, water, and gravity threaten to pull the house apart, Silas begins the slow, dangerous work of holding the foundation together stone by stone. What starts as a repair job becomes a test of endurance, loyalty, and cost—especially when family claims and long-avoided reckonings surface.
This is not a story about fixing everything.
It is a story about deciding what is worth holding.
Stone Mason is restrained, grounded literary fiction with strong masculine presence, emotional restraint, and high physical realism—ideal for listeners who value atmosphere, craftsmanship, and moral weight over spectacle.
©2026 V.M. Merrick (P)2026 V.M. Merrick