Hollowborn

Together, we rise.

Five hundred years after the end of the world, Halion stands as a monument to rebirth. A sunlit oasis of peace, enfolded between gleaming towers, hanging gardens, and flawless order. A promise of safety and progress. Beneath it lies the Hollow, a vast undercity where those left behind fight for scraps of light and air.

Nova was raised there, a career criminal who survives by doing what the Hollow demands of her, no questions asked. Trained into a weapon by a woman with ties to Halion itself, she has learned that survival comes before morality, and trust is a luxury she cannot afford. But when a routine job goes violently off-script, Nova is dragged into a web of secrets that threaten to unravel everything she believes about her world, and herself.

A Halion commander stands directly in Nova's way, ruthless, brilliant, and everything Nova should despise. He is the face of the enemy, the bane of her existence, and the one person she cannot seem to escape. As their paths collide over and over again, something far more dangerous begins to simmer beneath the surface-something forbidden, unwelcome, and impossible to extinguish.

In a city built on lies, loyalty is fragile. And the deeper Nova descends into Halion's truth, the clearer it becomes that she may be the weapon the system fears most.

HOLLOWBORN is a dystopian, post-apocalyptic science fantasy romance novel with morally gray characters, mounting tension, a rich, layered world, and a gripping slow-burn. A gritty, character-driven debut about self-determination, identity, and what happens when the forgotten stop clawing for survival and start fighting back.