The Ember Concordat
A commission for a dying client pulls cartographer Seraph Voss into the storm-lashed aether-docks of Calderis, where discharged spellcraft still stains the air and the Concordat's
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Neon Halo
When Lazarus Crowe falls from the burning spires of Halo Dominion, he brings ruin, and something far more dangerous, through the cathedral doors. Elara Voss, bound by a decade of d
The Thorn and the Icicle
Eleanor Ashford ran from her wedding, from a controlling husband-to-be, and from a life she no longer wanted. All she craved was distance, and she finds it in the worst possible pl
Carmilla Varno
Maren Ashford is the best deposition attorney at Whitfield, Crane and Associates, precise, unflinching, and willing to break any witness to find the truth. But when a high-profile
The Bleeding Crown
The knife slips into the leather with a hiss, each stroke a prayer against the dark. Aldara Voss has spent years running from the thing that wears her mother’s face in the mirror,
The Gilded Pretend
The first light of dawn slipped through the shutters, painting the herb garden in thin stripes of gold. Elara Quinn stood barefoot on the cool flagstones, her fingertips brushing t
The Dokkaebi Bride
Yoon-ah has spent years matching supernatural clients through the Mythic Match registry, a quiet office job that keeps her safely on the sidelines of the otherworldly dating scene.
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 buil
The Hollow Vow
In the salt-rotted port city of Marrowfen, Yarrow Vesper survives the only way the harbor's forgotten ever do, by sorting kelp from the tide's leavings behind the Saltwound Apothec
Bound by the Shadow Mark
A single lantern swings above the iron gates of Thornhaven Academy as Elara Voss arrives carrying a secret she cannot name , a shadow mark that burns beneath her skin and marks her
The Hollowing Season
When Maren Calloway arrives at the decaying farmhouse on Hollow Creek Road, the hearse is already gone and no one has thought to wait for her. The town has closed ranks around her
The Many-Headed Tempest
Violet light split the harbor sky, and cartographer Brennan Caldermoor knew the world was about to change forever. The tear hung above the anchorage, a wound in reality spilling fo
The Hush Before Larkspur
Margot Halloway arrives at the Halloway estate on the worst night of the year, carrying a brass key she has never used and a notebook full of her grandmother Agnes's unfinished sen
Thorns of the Crimson Moon
A crimson-waxed seal and a stag's skull pierced by a thorn are the only things that carry Lyra Ashford through the gates of Thornwood, an invitation no outsider has received in liv
The Hollow Beneath Millhaven
When Isadora Voss steps off a bus into the dying October town of Millhaven, she expects only grief, dust, and the quiet labor of settling a dead relative's estate. Instead, she fin
Thorns of the Eternal
Snow falls in slow curtains across the Thornwood's edge, and Elara Venn is running out of time. Her sister Mara is fading, her spirit claimed by the ancient, hungry forest that has
Chrome Veins
A dying man surfaces in Elena Vasquez's tow rig, and the bayou wants him back. Working the flooded industrial canals of a half-submerged Houston, Elena survives by hauling wrecked
The Winter of His Touch
A Yorkshire blizzard swallows the moors whole, stranding Elena Ashford at the remote and decaying Thornhollow Manor, home of the enigmatic Sebastian Vane, a man whose pale skin and
The Hollow Beneath Willow Creek
When Eleanor Vance receives word that her estranged grandmother has died and left her a crumbling farmhouse in Willow Creek, Vermont, she expects closure, not a haunting. The house
Veins of Silver Moonlight
When thief Maren Caldwell forces open the lock of a derelict brownstone, she expects dust, rot, and maybe something worth pawning. What she finds instead is a ledger of names, a si
Thorns of the Hollow Court
The iron gates of Blackthorn Manor groan open for Rowan Ashworth, pulling him back to an estate he swore never to return to, and into the shadowed dominion of Lord Cassian Thorne a
The Hollow Beneath the Bell
When folklorist Elena Vass travels to the remote Finnish village of Salka Mound to record the legend of a bell lost beneath a drowned church, she expects folklore, not faith. The v
Cursed Beneath a Thorned Moon
On the night of a blood moon, Octavia Blackwood steps out of a rain-lashed carriage and into Ravenshollow Manor, the estate her grandmother died protecting and the heir she swore s
The Ghost Ledger
Eleanor Vance has spent her career settling the estates of the recently departed, but nothing in her years at the Thornhaven solicitor's office prepares her for the letter that nam
Embers of the Marked Heart
Rain falls on Brackenmere as Poppy Ashworth climbs the rise back to the only home she has left, the village that once revered her mother's healing hands and now whispers of disgrac
Bound by the Raven's Shadow
When Elara Vance inherits Blackwood Manor from a relative she never knew existed, she expects dust, debts, and the bones of a forgotten estate. What she finds is far worse: Kieran
The Tidemarked
When Wynne Calder drags a pale stranger from the storm-tossed cove, she finds a drowned boy's handprint branded into his chest, and with it, the unraveling of a covenant her bloodl
What the Hollow Keeps
Nine years after fleeing his cursed hometown, Reese Dark receives a call that drags him back to Briarvale, a nowhere town where the blacktop unspools into dust and the dead do not
The Ember Beneath Her Tongue
Sable Calderon wakes to the smell of burnt honey and the snap of a copper filament, her enchanted thermostat has bled its wards into the gray dawn of her Beacon Hill apartment. By
The Hollow Beneath the Pines
Caleb Marsh has nowhere left to go when he inherits a rotting house at Raven Hollow from a grandfather who refused to acknowledge him. Inside, beneath plaster that bubbles like ski
The Hollowing Season
Maren Ashworth hasn't spoken to her sister in eleven years. Now Eliza is dead, and Maren has come to the remote town of Briarvale to sort through what she left behind: a drafty hou
The Hollow Crown
When Eleanor Vance arrives at Ashworth Manor, the moors are already weeping rain against black stone. She has come to bury her uncle Callum and claim what remains of her family's c
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 tab