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About the Author
Cindy Hansen works in equitable AI-enabled mental health outcome monitoring systems, where her professional focus is simple and urgent: how care is measured — and whose voices shape the data.
That same question lives at the heart of her fiction.
Her debut novel, The Stones and the Mist, is set in the Faroe Islands in 825 CE — a time of migration, conversion, and contested memory. The story listens for what survived beneath conquest and curated history: land-held knowledge, relational law, women’s memory, and ways of knowing that were never formally recorded.
Cindy’s writing bridges research and story — measurement and memory — exploring how knowledge moves through lineage, land, silence, and survival.
FEATURED BOOK
The Stones and the Mist
A Historical Novel of Memory and Erasure
Faroe Islands, 825 CE.
A Time of Conquest and Conversion
Faroe Islands, 825 CE. As new powers reshape belief and belonging, older ways of knowing are pushed toward silence. Systems of record begin to replace relational law; conquest and conversion begin to curate memory. Yet the land remembers. The tide keeps its own record. And not all histories consent to disappear.
Through a mythic, saga-inflected voice, The Stones and the Mist explores who gets written into history — and who is left out; land-held knowledge beyond institutional record; women’s memory carried across generations; and the fragile persistence of relational worlds under pressure.
A Village in the Mist
When a sea-mist village begins to whisper its unrest, one woman is drawn into a reckoning that dissolves the boundary between past and present, fate and free will. What first appears as atmosphere becomes inquiry — into lineage, belonging, and the truths that refuse erasure.
Rooted in sensory detail and historical texture, the novel moves between outer landscape and inner threshold, where silence is not absence but survival.
Memory Beyond the Archive
At its heart, The Stones and the Mist is a story about memory — ancestral, elemental, embodied. It asks how stories choose their tellers, how courage is found in uncertainty, and how guidance can exist outside formal record.
In the spaces between archive and oral memory, between law and land, between erasure and endurance — something older continues to speak.
Welcome to the Stones and Mist Inner Circle
A quiet gathering place at the edge of the story — for readers who feel the pull of wind over water, of memory carried in stone. Before The Stones and the Mist enters the wider world, this circle steps into the mist first. Here, the saga unfolds slowly and deliberately, the way stories were once shared — by voice, by breath, by firelight. Within the Inner Circle, you’ll receive exclusive audio teasers — Told the Old Way, The Thin Places, and The Treadlight — along with early previews of Chapters 1, 2, and 3. You’ll glimpse the research, the landscapes of the Faroe Islands, and the emotional current that carries Freydis forward. This is not simply early access; it is immersion. If you have ever felt that history holds more than what is written — that the land remembers, that women’s voices travel farther than ink — then you are already part of this circle. Step closer. The stones are speaking.
Why Join the Stones and Mist Inner Circle?
