The Hollow Crown of Eirath
A dead king's crown is calling from the deep salt, and the world is beginning to answer. Vera Ashthorne hears voices in bone, fragments of the dead, echoes of the forgotten, and now, something far more dangerous. A shattered relic, dredged from the ruins of an empire that should have stayed buried, whispers a single name: hers. When the Petrified God-Tree cracks open beneath the Veiling Sea, the Leviathan stirs, ancient wards fail, and a spectral messenger begins hunting the living. Drawn into a war she never asked for, Vera must flee the Bone-Chime Tower alongside the disgraced Shadow-Warden Captain Thessa, a woman still shadowed by the betrayals of Spymaster Orven. Across storm-ravaged coasts and cursed archives, they are pursued by the Ember Host, outmaneuvered by the cunning Ferran Duun, and haunted by visions of Ghost-Queen Maerath, whose vengeance could unmake Eirath itself. The Unnamed King, Tyrant Solgrave, and ancient powers all covet the Hollow Crown. Vera holds the key to waking or sealing it forever. The question is whether she can resist its song before everything she loves turns to bone and salt.