The Hollow Crown

A CROWN FOR THE HOLLOW KING

Every Hollow King for four thousand years has been the same: woven from stolen memory, built to rule and forbidden to feel. Anye was never supposed to be the one to make the next one. She’s the only person in Ilyros ever chosen without a familiar, untested, untrained, and marked by a god who has never chosen anyone...

The crown was woven to remember. Now it has to survive being tested.

Calereth Darethalion rules a throne built, for four thousand years, on men who erased and obeyed. He is the first Hollow King woven instead to remember, to choose, to love, Anye’s gift, and her gamble. It has held through one winter of peace. It has not yet been tested by war.

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