Splinters

by Mark Everett Stone

Kalevi Hakala is tired. Weary down to the bone, his life an empty one since the death of his wife Jeanie and complicated by his son's growing emotional distance. He's at least somewhat content in his home in Silver Bay, Minnesota, but when a dead man tries to kill him for no reason he can fathom it sets him on a quest through the multiverse in an attempt to keep reality from being destroyed.




Foul-mouthed, slave, warrior, wizard and savior, Kalevi Hakala travels from this world to the next with only his wit, his dauntless Finnish drive to succeed (called sisu) and a lifetime's supply of hard-won experience aid him. He will find friends, new enemies and discover there is more to this life than merely soldiering on when things get tough.

298 pages, Paperback

Published November 12, 2024

About the author

Born in Helsinki, Finland, Mark Everett Stone arrived in the U.S. at a young age and promptly dove into the world of the fantastic. Starting at age seven with the Iliad and the Odyssey, he went on to consume every scrap of Norse Mythology he could get his grubby little paws on. At age thirteen he graduated to Tolkien and Heinlein, building up a book collection that soon rivaled the local public library’s. In college Mark majored in Journalism and minored in English. Mark is feverishly working on his next book while his amazingly patient wife, Brandie, keeps him and their two sons, Aeden and Gabriel, in check.