HOLLOW CROWN: A Gothic Dark Academia Romance

Every crown wears its queen. The bells rang for a coronation. They should have rung for a war. Sabine Calloway climbed out of the cove with the real crown in her hands and set it on her own head to spare her little sister the cost of wearing it. She did not know the crown was never a throne. It was a cell. And the thing it caged has spent four hundred years waiting for a Calloway foolish enough to open the door. Now Sabine is hollow, the hunger wears her face, and the only blood on Sable Point that can starve it back into the dark belongs to the sister she died trying to save. Wren Calloway has already been buried once on paper. She has worn a god for three days and refused to feed it. She has rejected every door the founder built and made her own out of refusing. For four centuries the seven Houses called her line the offering. They were wrong. Calloway blood was never the sacrifice. It was the lock. And Cassius Vale, the boy who bullied her, broke for her, and would drown the whole island to keep her, has just done the one thing she begged him never to do. He reached for the crown. He chose it. Now the wild thing wears the man she loves, there is no cove left to give it back to, no founder's discipline to bargain with, and no spare queen to take his place. Wren held the rope for everyone else. Now she has to walk into the burning house herself and refuse to leave a man behind. She is not the key. She is not the lock. She is the one who chooses. And she has chosen him. HOLLOW CROWN is the explosive conclusion to The Hollow Court, a dark academia bully romance of secret societies, drowned debts, a possessive antihero, and a love fierce enough to starve a god. This is the third book in a continuous trilogy and is not a standalone. Read Godless Crown and Merciless Crown first. A dark romance for adult readers. Contains mature themes and content warnings, listed inside.

Pages: 237, Paperback, Independently published