Ellie Voss has spent her whole life on the south side of the Calloway Bridge — the daughter of Dominic Voss, the most dangerous man in Redmoor. John Morrow has spent his on the north side — the son of Katherine Morrow, the most calculating woman in the city. Their families have been at war for twenty-five years, the conflict so deeply embedded in the city's bones that it has become geography: two territories, one bridge, and a line neither side crosses.Then their parents arrange a ...

Book One: Blood and StarlightSome inheritances you don't get to refuse.On the summer solstice, seventeen-year-old Lyra Vayne feels all three of her bloodline gifts wake at once — and nothing in her life with her foster mother Cass explains why. Beneath the grove, something ancient stirs for the first time in three centuries, just as the two-century-old Accord comes up for review. With Cael, the Nocturi archivist who reads what's buried as sharply as she does, Lyra starts pu...

Book Two: The Broken AccordSome treaties were never meant to survive the truth.A year later, Lyra is the reason the Conclave can't look away. The Article Nine review has split the Conclave in two — a reform faction against an old guard three centuries in the making — and when she and Cael recover the second Binding document, they learn what the Antecedent really is, closer now than in three hundred years. On the solstice, in the grove, Lyra opens every gift she has, and for...

Hollow Echo: Death and Rebirth – A Journey Through Trauma and HealingThis novel by Wayne Shira explores the intricate psychological landscape of Nora Voss, a woman haunted by childhood trauma and her fractured relationship with family and self. Through a blend of metaphorical "Hollow World" sequences and grounded therapy scenes, the narrative unfolds Nora's internal struggle with abandonment, self-worth, and the work of healing over time. The story poetically intertwines themes of ...

Hollow Echo: A Novel of Family, Identity, and Artistic StruggleThis narrative explores Mara Parrish's journey of self-discovery, familial conflict, and artistic integrity, weaving the tension between personal authenticity and familial expectations. Through vivid metaphoric spaces—kitchens, theaters, dressing rooms—it portrays Mara's internal and external struggles to be seen as herself rather than as a performer of expected roles.

A psychological horror book about a monster induced apocalypse with massive monsters, with 7 main characters who all die throughout the script In horrible ways except for one who is attacked but lives, the monster are as follows-The Threshold — 400ft, 16 limbs, 14 independent eyes, a face that opens like a flower and fires infrasound that stops heartsThe Choir — translucent swarm units that speak to you in the voice of your dead loved ones, then dissolve youThe Deep One — a...

Book Three: The Waking DarkNot every darkness is the enemy. Some of it just needs tending.Lyra is twenty-one when the Aethon's dreaming reserve proves more fragile than realized — restoring it means holding the convergence six unbroken days, longer than any Binding-holder in history. It's also six days that finally name what's grown between her and Cael. But the replenishment reveals something else: a shift on the far side of the consuming current, vast and unprecedented. W...

Book Four: The Consuming CurrentSome things don't attack. They just get closer. The Antecedent is coming, carried on the consumingcurrent, making its closest approach in three hundredyears — and the Veil's buffer has never been weaker.At twenty-four, Lyra leads the most dangerousoperation of her life yet: six days, the full commission,the Undivided's cooperation for the first time ever.What the current leaves behind isn't destruction ...

A long time ago, Diotitus was a Greek god. At least for about a month until his worshiper-base of eight converted. Now, Diotitus lives in an apartment in the afterlife of the generally unsaved. One neighbor is the enigmatic Brangot, and another neighbor is the vivacious Tif Brown. Unfortunately, Tif has completely given up and is now a Drooler. But at the moment conscious thought left her mind, she had a burst of insight that is now the most sought after piece of information. Many gods fro...

An illustrated book for adults and older children, told entirely in rhyme. in collaboration with artist Simon Schild.Three hundred years ago from now,when land was tilled with horse and ploughAn innocent man was hunted down,and thrown into a lake to drownOver time, the lake stagnated,and memory of the man abatedBut one dark night there came a storm,and Crackly Bones, the fiend, was born!SynopsisThree hundred years ago...

In the heart of Verenthia, power is not merely inherited; it is sustained by a centuries-old deception. The Immortal's Bargain invites you into a Regency world of high-society elegance and lethal shadows, where the preservation of a throne depends on a secret that has outlived generations.Mira Vael is the ultimate instrument of the Syndicate: a highly trained assassin groomed since childhood to be the "correction" to an unnatural reign. Disguised as a provincial wa...

Lyra Voss is nineteen when the mark appears on her wrist — ash-grey lines branching like a dying tree, marking her as one of the Ashbound: magic-bearers hunted for three centuries by the Crown’s Inquisition. In a kingdom where the marked are not imprisoned but erased, Lyra has one night to run before she disappears.Instead, she is taken north to Ashenmere Citadel, where the Crown Warden — a man who has spent two years waiting for exactly her mark — offers h...