The Unchanging Stone

There is a stone that never changes, but which warps everything around it. It should be locked away, where it can never challenge the status quo, but it went missing a while back. Now there are hints it's being used, and that could change everything.

Cassie knew she wasn't free of that world, but at least she hadn't been stuck in it. Then a nuisance call turns out to be a murder with links to the factions, threatening to drag her back in.

There's a conspiracy within a secret society, determined to regain their former secrecy, and restore what they believe was. But change isn't easy to control, nor the future easy to fight.