Steven Saint

Island of Bones

Five centuries ago the official story of the New World was carefully written over an earlier arrival. A scattered visual cipher — the Codec — was hidden across the Caribbean to prove it, aimed at a vault on Cayo Hueso, the island of bones. The modern team that reassembles the Codec is not the first to try. The line that hid it has been waiting a thousand years for them to read it.

The Nine Volumes

Three core volumes — The Island of Bones · The River Turn · The Vault — followed by a prequel (Book 4), a southern-branch sequel (Book 5), an origin trilogy (Books 6–8), and a futuristic capstone (Book 9).

Status: Books 1–6 drafted; Book 7 in progress; Books 8–9 in beat-sheet form.

The Island of Bones
Book One
The Island of Bones
Now they'll never know we were here first.
drafted
The River Turn
Book Two
The River Turn (working title)
The chain reaches the Mississippi.
drafted
The Vault
Book Three
The Vault (working title)
Cayo Hueso. The vault. The hinge of the saga.
drafted
The Convergence
Book Four
The Convergence
Before page one of Book One — three lives the trilogy will never separate again.
drafted
The Southern Branch
Book Five
The Southern Branch (working title)
The discovery is half-out. The southern branch goes south.
drafted
Origins: The First Arrival
Book Six
Origins: The First Arrival (working title)
Two arrivals — one was welcome, one was a warning.
drafted
Origins: The Fork
Book Seven
Origins: The Fork (working title)
Contact. The fork. The Guardians and the Hunters take shape.
in progress
Origins: The Bridge
Book Eight
Origins: The Bridge (working title)
The era when the Codec leaves the Caribbean.
beat sheet
The Resurfacing
Book Nine
The Resurfacing (working title)
The secret was not hidden away. It was hidden forward.
beat sheet

About the series

Dan Brown machinery, Patterson velocity, Holmesian deduction; King-edge dread closer to Lisey's Story than to It.

Register. Close-third multi-POV — Iris Lettsome (lead), Kwame Cudjoe (partner), Rafael Ribero (antagonist); period-thread interludes across six eras.

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