Book One
Hollowbound
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A gutter girl is bound to the most dangerous creature in the realm. The man sent to keep her has no idea what she did the night his sister died.
The Hollow Rite · Book One
Hollowbound
Every nineteen-year-old walks onto the black sand and names the truest thing they carry. The beast that judges the answer decides whether they bind, walk away, or die screaming.
In a kingdom held together by ward-stones and lies
The Rite asks for the truest thing you carry.
Wren has spent ten years being no one, and the plan is simple: tell a small truth, bind the dullest beast in the pens, and climb out of the pit as forgettable as she went in.
Then the forbidden beast the crown keeps caged beneath the arena tears through its wall for her and binds her in front of a thousand witnesses.
Now the most dangerous creature in the realm is bound to a gutter girl, the crown wants it leashed, and the man assigned to keep her is Cael Veyne, heir of the coldest House in the capital. He is everything she has learned to fear. And he has no idea that the night his sister died, Wren was the one who drew the bolt.
Every time the hollow saves her life, it takes a memory in payment.
The wall was never a wall.
It was a debt.
A Dark Romantasy Trilogy
The Hollow Rite
Enemies to lovers, a bonded beast that feeds on memory, and a kingdom that prices its people before they are born.
Book Two
Hollowforged
Coming soon
The truth Wren told on the black sand saved the wall. Now the crown has sent the bill.
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A sealed order has arrived at Lastwatch with two words on it: spend her. The breaches are coming faster, the dead country is pressing in, and the hollow bound to Wren is the only thing holding the gaps. Every time he does, he takes another warm memory from her: a song, a face, the feeling behind a word.
Cael Veyne keeps a book of everything she loses and reads it back to her at night. It's the closest thing to a vow either of them can afford, because the House that raised him burned the House that raised her, and the papers behind that fire are still being filed.
Book Three
HollowUnbound
Coming soon
The wall was never a wall. It was a debt.
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Wren has given the hollow nearly every warm thing she had, and the dead country is still coming. Now the crown wants her custody back on paper, the men who burned her House are finally in a courtroom, and the oldest record in the kingdom says the bargain that built the wall was signed by people who were never asked.
The rite asks for the truest thing you carry. This time, Wren has to decide what that is.
The Hollow Rite is written for readers 18+ and contains explicit sexual content, graphic violence, references to sexual violence, and the deaths of loved ones.
One World, Three Ages
Before the black sand
The Hollow Rite is the end of a much longer story. Three trilogies, one realm, and the bargain that built the wall.
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Four hundred years before
The Quiet Country
Book One: The Truest Thing
Two narrators, Ilka and Senna, and the first bond the realm ever knew.
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The years before the Rite
The Kept
A Hollow Rite Prequel · Dark Fantasy
I The Fall of Coryn
House Coryn keeps the kingdom's memory, and under its lowest corridor, behind a warded stone that no grown man will cross, it keeps something else.
It is the story of the night a House burned, and of the girl who walked out of it with a brand on her wrist and a name she would never say again.
II The Ash Years
The House is ash. The girl who walked out of it is nine years old, with three burned lines on her wrist and a number stitched to her sleeve, and she has one law: stay no one.
The years between the fire and the sand, told by the child who kept nothing.
III The Ten Winters
Ten winters take both her hands. Five of them are gone.
It ends where Hollowbound begins: on a wet stair under the fortress, with something under the stone counting down to her.
Arrives after The Hollow Rite. Contains graphic violence, children in danger, and the deaths of loved ones.
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The nineteenth year
The Hollow Rite
Hollowbound · Hollowforged · HollowUnbound
Wren walks onto the black sand. Everything the realm buried walks out with her.
A Norse Dark Romance
The Northreach Saga
Forbidden love, enemies to lovers, and a funeral fire that waits nine days.
Book One
Nine Days to Burn
In the works
To find out who sent her sister into the fire, a slave volunteers to burn on her master’s funeral ship. She has nine days to learn the truth before the flames, guarded every night by the one man forbidden to touch her.
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When her jarl is poisoned at his own feast, a thrall woman volunteers to die on his pyre, so she can use the nine sacred days before the burning to unmask whoever forced her sister onto the same fire eight winters ago. But the heir who guards her door is the man who delivered her sister’s death sentence, a draugr is clawing out of the hill above the hall, and if the ship doesn’t burn before the fjord freezes, the faith says the endless winter returns.
Book Two
The Long White
In the works
A winter with no spring in sight.
Book Three
The Great Blót
In the works
The year of the great sacrifice.
The Northreach Saga is written for readers 18+ and contains explicit sexual content and graphic violence.
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