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SYNOPSIS
Some kingdoms are built on crowns. This one was buried under roads, bells, graves, records, and every name the Crown decided was easier to forget.
Tressa Vale is a Crown Works surveyor, trained to measure roads, boundaries, and official lies. When the road to Bellharrow grows seven impossible miles overnight, she follows it into a village where old bells are waking under the ground and a throne waits beneath the world with no ruler sitting on it. Then Garran Holt arrives. A dangerous Warden with fire in his blood and scars he does not explain, Holt was sent to contain what the Crown fears. Tressa was sent to measure it. Neither expected the road to claim them both.
What begins with one wrong road becomes a fight for the soul of a hidden kingdom. Ancient bells answer. Buried roads open. The dead demand witness. Children stolen by law speak from sealed places. Dragons wake across wounded seasons. Courts, churches, offices, claimants, and monsters all reach for power, but Tressa learns the hardest truth of all: A kingdom does not have to be ruled to be real. Across ten books,
**The Hollow Kingdom**
follows Tressa, Holt, and a fierce circle of allies through haunted roads, forbidden claims, buried law, dangerous magic, slow-burn desire, brutal choices, and a love strong enough to refuse every throne that asks for blood. This is dark romantasy with teeth: gothic mystery, ancient magic, found family, sharp banter, political danger, haunted villages, impossible roads, and a romance forged in fire, witness, and war. For readers who love fantasy romance with rich worldbuilding, fierce heroines, scarred protectors, buried kingdoms, ancient bargains, and slow-burning passion wrapped around epic stakes.
The road to Bellharrow was only the beginning.
The throne is empty.
And that may be the only reason the kingdom can survive.
The Hollow Kingdom (10 book series)
Book 1 - The Hollow Kingdom: Empty Throne
SYNOPSIS
**A road that should not exist. A bell that should not ring. A throne no one living should claim.**
Tressa Vale knows roads.
As a Crown Works surveyor, she has measured the kingdom’s boundaries in rain, frost, mud, and miserable company. Roads may sink, flood, crack, or take offense at being trusted, but they do not add seven miles to themselves overnight.
The road to Bellharrow has done exactly that.
When Tressa follows the impossible distance into the village, she finds a church hiding old fear, a bell waking under stone, and a buried law the Crown tried to forget. Bellharrow is not just a place on a map. It is a doorway into something older, darker, and far more dangerous.
Then Garran Holt arrives.
Holt is a Warden, a man sent where old things go wrong and people are grateful if he leaves them alive. He is dangerous, controlled, and far too hard to ignore. Tressa needs his strength. Holt needs her measure. Neither of them trusts the pull between them, and neither has time to pretend it is not there.
Because the Hollow Kingdom is waking.
Old roads are opening. Old claims are answering. A claimant with a polished smile wants what should stay buried. And somewhere beneath Crownmark waits an empty throne tied to bells, blood, law, and the kind of power that turns ambition into ruin.
Tressa was sent to measure a road.
Now she must decide which kingdom gets to live.
**The Empty Throne** is Book One of **The Hollow Kingdom**, a dark romantasy series filled with dangerous roads, ancient bells, buried law, slow-burn tension, gothic mystery, and a romance forged in fire, witness, and impossible choices.
Book 2 - The Hollow Kingdom: The First Road
SYNOPSIS
**The throne is empty. The roads are waking. And the Crown has not finished measuring the dead.**
Tressa Vale survived the buried throne beneath Crownmark, but survival did not end the danger. It only proved the Hollow Kingdom was real.
Now the floor rings beneath her feet.
The old roads are answering from every direction. Bellharrow. Greyveil. Applecross. Crownmark. Places bound by buried law, broken bells, forgotten claims, and debts the living never paid properly. The Crown wants order. Royal Survey wants control. The Hollow Kingdom wants witness.
Tressa is caught between all three.
Marked by the throne and bound to the brass chain of her office, she has become something the capital cannot ignore. Garran Holt, the burned and stubborn Warden at her side, is the one man who understands how dangerous that makes her. He is also becoming harder to keep at a safe distance, which would be inconvenient even if the kingdom were not actively trying to rearrange itself under their boots.
Then Royal Survey reveals the fifth measure.
Obedience.
It is older than law, cleaner than murder, and far more useful to people who prefer their crimes official. In the capital, roads can be made straight, bells can command, and the dead can be filed away until no one has to remember who gave the order.
Tressa, Holt, Mara, and Voss must enter the machinery of Crown power before the first road wakes fully and every claim below the kingdom is forced into one obedient line.
But the Hollow Kingdom was never built for one ruler.
And the first road does not open for cowards, kings, or liars.
**The First Road** is Book Two of **The Hollow Kingdom**, a dark romantasy series filled with dangerous magic, gothic courts, ancient bells, buried law, sharp banter, slow-burn heat, and a kingdom that refuses to stay dead.