The Hollowing of Cassandra Soul
The letter arrived in a dead man's mouth, and with it, Cassandra Soul was born into a life she cannot remember. She wakes in the lantern-lit sprawl of Lumeria, a floating city built on stolen memories, holding a summons she did not earn and a name she cannot explain. The trail leads her through the shifting corridors of the Mind-Thief's market, past the shade of Saint Elspeth, through the gilded lies of the Spire Council, and into the drowned vaults of the Amber Lords , where the Original Cassandra waits, hollowed and waiting. Hunted by Inquisitor Vesper Kane, bartered by Bazaar-Keeper Sool, and tested by Mentor Aldric Vane and Guildmaster Pell, Cassandra must bargain with the Memory Court for every fragment of who she was. The Soulless Council wants her mind scattered across the Drowned Choir. The Possessed Armies want what she carries. And somewhere in the wreckage of her forgotten self, a future Cassandra is writing a memoir that will end her , unless she chooses which memories to surrender, and which to wield as weapons. The Hollowing of Cassandra Soul is a descent through memory, identity, and the price of remembering in a city that devours what it cannot control.