The lights of Hollowmere never go out. The great clocktower never stops ticking. But what powers the perfect city is far more sinister than anyone...

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The Hollow Clock by Elias Keane

Praise

Still Water
This is an intense thrilling story that invokes all sorts of emotions in you, in a town where people are loosing their children to a river, not one family but different families in the town. The sheriff himself finds himself in a situation where he’s not just investigating what happened to other kids, he’s in a position trying to find out what happened to his daughter too, things don’t add up and suspicions go over the roof.
This is one of those stories that has your curiosity at its peak. I was really eager to know what exact was going on. I found it absolutely enjoyable, I couldn’t keep the book down just because I really wanted to uncover what was happening.
The pace was amazing, it wasn’t a story that was rushed at all. There were many characters mentioned but the author took time to explain everyone’s story which gave a sense of familiarity before we got to now find out more about the situation that was taking place.
This book was absolutely enjoyable and I absolutely loved reading it.

– Scovia (Goodreads)

The Hollow Clock
A haunting and brilliantly constructed steampunk narrative. The Hollow Clock delivers a gripping exploration of power, sacrifice, and morality, wrapped in rich world-building and an unsettling premise that lingers long after the final page. Our readers were especially struck by the originality of the “energy system” and the emotional weight behind it.

– Alexandramary (Goodreads)

Still Water
What stood out most for me was the emotional weight. This isn’t just a crime story it’s about loss, understanding, and the unsettling feeling of being truly seen. The dynamic between Jack and Grace James is especially well done, subtle but powerful.

If you enjoy slow-burn psychological thrillers with strong characters and a lingering sense of unease, this is definitely worth the read.

– Melissa Madison (Goodreads)

Books

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The Hollow Asylum

Prequal to The Hollow Clock
Book #0 from the series: The Hollow Clock Saga

Every light in the city is a soul. He's the man who made it merciful.

Erasmus Cassin is not a monster. That is the problem.

He is a grieving widower and a brilliant engineer, and when he discovers the secret buried beneath Hollowmere — that the whole shining city runs on the bound souls of its own dead, ground to nothing in machines too crude to...

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The Hollow Clock

Book #1 from the series: The Hollow Clock Saga

The lights of Hollowmere never go out. The great clocktower never stops ticking. But what powers the perfect city is far more sinister than anyone dares to admit.

In the steampunk metropolis of Hollowmere, progress demands sacrifice. The poor are offered a deal: sign their names, surrender their bodies to the Sovereign’s Cradle, and be “...

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The Hollow Cathedral

A Hollow Clock Saga
Book #2 from the series: The Hollow Clock Saga

An empire ran on perfect time. Perfect time ran on something worse.

For sixty years, the great clock of Hollowmere kept perfect time. Trains ran, harbors opened, an empire set its calendar by the city’s bells, and no one asked what the bargain cost.

Six weeks ago, the clock stopped.

Now Hollowmere is dark and cold for the first time in living...

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Series

In the Serpent’s Shadow
In the Serpent’s Game
In the Serpent’s Ruin
The Unseen Charter
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The Rourke Correlation

Some families build legacies. The Rourkes build traps.

Caleb Rourke is good at two things: breaking into systems and walking away clean. He's managed both for ten years — until his aunt summons him back to Washington for a job that was never what it looked like, and he...

The Hollow Asylum
The Hollow Clock
The Hollow Cathedral
The Hollow City

The Hollow Clock Saga

A city of impossible light. A price no one is allowed to remember. And the one man left who can hear the dead screaming inside the machine.

For sixty years, Hollowmere has been the wonder of the age — a vertical city of gaslamp and gear, its streets lit, its trams running,...

The Timber Wolf
The Bear Hunt
Hunting the Silver Fox
Bear Country

The Bear Hunt Stories

Big, protective bears. Charismatic silver foxes. Love that finds you when you least expect it, and refuses to let go.

The Bear Hunt Stories is a steamy, heartfelt contemporary MM romance series set in the wild landscapes of the American West. Each book pairs a rugged,...

MM Romance

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Latest Updates

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Just a quick, slightly urgent note.

The Goodreads giveaway for Line of the Ball is closing in a few days — August 15. There are still 100 free Kindle copies up for grabs (U.S....

Line of the Ball: 100 free Kindle copies on Goodreads The Windward Cup

The Windward Cup Dynasty is two books deep now, and I'd like as many readers as possible to come in through the front door. So there's a Goodreads giveaway running for Book One,...

Giveaway Winners Announced: One More Way to Get The Hollow City Early The

The Goodreads giveaway has wrapped, and 100 winners now have their copies of The Hollow City in hand. If that's you, thank you for entering, and I hope Hollowmere treats you...

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Blog

August 23, 2026

I ran a design contest for the new Bear Hunt Story covers. Seven hundred and eight people entered.

I want to tell you what happened, because...

July 28, 2026

The Hollow Clock Saga finishes tomorrow.

On 29 July, The Hollow City goes live in every format: Kindle (on sale at $2.99 for a limited time, and...

July 25, 2026

Four days. After three books, a prequel novella, and more hours inside Hollowmere than I can honestly account for, the Hollow Clock Saga finishes...

July 19, 2026

Why don't you publish traditionally?

I get a version of this question every few weeks, usually from a reader who liked one of the books enough to...

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