The Hollow King

A dying king. A witch's masterpiece. A throne that can never be filled again.In the North Kingdom, the crown is chosen by holy fire. An aether relic that has crowned kings for a thousand years, burning away the unworthy and sparing only the rightful ruler's hand. It has never been wrong.The great houses bury their king and unsheathe their ambitions on the same day. The Order of His Holy Fire, the Grey Knights, the Faith's silent, incorruptible sword, starts pulling on threads that lead somewhere none of them are ready for. While a witch-queen carries a king's stolen mind south, chasing a power desperate enough to help her cheat death... and monstrous enough to make her wish she hadn't asked. And in the middle of it all, a faceless monster who only wanted to disappear. Instead, she's about to become the one thing standing between a hollow throne and the fire that's coming for all of it. The Hollow King is Book One of Aetherfall, a multi-POV epic fantasy for readers of A Song of Ice and Fire. Where magic is handled like nuclear material, ambition cuts deeper than any blade, and every good intention rots, slowly, into something worse.