The Hollow Throne
Beneath a blood-red moon, Maren Ashwood climbs the broken cliffs of the Vale with nothing but a locket and a name: Caelan Vyr , the exiled heir to an empire now ruled by ghosts. The Vyr throne has stood empty for years, yet a sorcerer named Caius Thorne sits upon its steps wearing stolen faces, conjuring the dead, and calling himself the Tyrant-of-Mirrors. Through scrying glass and silvered pools, he hunts Maren's younger sister Asha, whose memory holds the only map to the empire's true ruler. With her sister fading and the kingdom's lords scattered, Maren must rally what allies remain , the rogue Bryn Vale, the seer Wren, and the reluctant princess Lira , before every mirror in the realm becomes a doorway for the tyrant to walk through. But Maren is not the only one climbing. The Tyrant-of-Mirrors has already loosed his illusions across the Vale, and one of them wears Asha's smile. To save her sister, her bloodline, and the broken empire, Maren must reach the hollow throne first , and decide whether to claim it, destroy it, or let it fall with her.