Bride of Hollow Court: Book One of The Hollow Court Cycle

The world Mara Calder knows is a lie — and the truth beneath it wants to consume her whole.

When Mara is dragged through a dimensional rift into the Hollowlands, she discovers a secret realm of terrifying power where royal bloodlines control everything: who enters, who rules, and who disappears. The Hollow Court operates like a machine dressed in silk — beautiful, precise, and merciless — and Mara has been delivered to it as both prize and problem.

Assigned to contain her, Ronan Halward is everything she should despise: cold, loyal to a corrupt system, and frustratingly impossible to outmaneuver. He watches her, reports on her, and prepares her for a fate no one will name out loud. He is not supposed to question his orders. He is absolutely not supposed to care what happens to her.

But Mara refuses to be dressed and delivered without a fight. As she navigates the court's layered rituals and unspoken rules, she starts pulling at threads — missing brides, sealed records, a pattern of vanishings the court has perfected over centuries. The deeper she looks, the more dangerous she becomes. And the more dangerous she becomes, the harder Ronan finds it to stay on the wrong side of the line between them.

This science-fiction romance sets the stage for an epic series where institutional cruelty meets undeniable chemistry — and one woman's refusal to be a footnote might burn an entire hidden empire to the ground.