Grain of the Heart: A Novel of What It Costs to Build Something That Lasts (The Ironwood Legacy, Band 1) - Couverture souple

Sterling, Vance

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798160764818

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

His father left him three things.

A rusted hand-plane. Forty-seven thousand dollars of debt. And a shop full of ash.

Caleb Ironwood is twenty-three years old, bleeding from both palms, digging through still-hot embers for the only tool his father ever owned. He has no shop, no capital, and no name anyone in the furniture world recognizes. What he has is a single board of the hardest wood on the continent and one unbreakable conviction:

The world breaks the soft wood. He will be the wood that breaks the world.

Over the years that follow, Caleb sets out to build something no one can buy, no one can imitate, and no compromise can weaken. Every opportunity demands a sacrifice. Every success exacts a greater price. And the higher he climbs, the more the world insists that every principle has its price.

Caleb refuses to believe it.

But convictions are expensive.

As his reputation grows, powerful investors come with impossible offers. Competitors begin chasing the standard he refuses to lower. And the father whose choices Caleb spent a lifetime condemning begins to leave behind a different inheritance, one that forces him to question everything he thought he understood about success, failure, and the cost of building a life that lasts.

The Grain of the Heart is a novel about discipline as identity. About the alchemy of scarcity. About the difference between building a business and building a record. It asks a question that grows more difficult with every page:

What is the value of a thing that was never built to be sold?

It is for the craftsman who has been told their pricing is too high. For the founder who refused an offer and could not explain why to anyone who loved them. For every person who has held a standard alone and refused to lower it.

The work is on the bench.
The bench is always there.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798160764818
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 554
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible