Throne of Hollow Frost

Elara Voss has spent three years learning the language of the dead in the copper-lit depths of Hollow City's morgue, until the night a nameless child's body is delivered to her table and Commissioner Dorian Kael walks in with questions no official should be asking. The child matches no missing persons report, the fingerprints belong to no living soul, and every trace of evidence vanishes by morning. Haunted by the memory of her late grandmother's whispered warnings and visited by Lisel, a ghost only Elara can perceive, she is pulled into a conspiracy threaded through the city's highest office of power. Magistrate Sera Vant controls the narrative of every unexplained death beneath the frost. And the Pale Child, a figure whispered about in the slums, may be the key to a secret older than the city itself. As Dorian and Elara close in on the truth, they discover the body was never meant to be found, and that uncovering its origin will demand a price measured in memory, sanity, or life. To expose the Hollow City's darkest secret, Elara must surrender the boundary between the living and the dead that has kept her sane.