Dark Fantasy

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 “...

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...

The clock stopped. The cathedral fell. The lie still stands.

For sixty years, Hollowmere kept perfect time on the backs of its dead — and called it faith. Callum Vane dragged that secret into the light and paid for it with the very gift that let him hear the bound at all. Now the whole city knows what it is.

Knowing was never the hard part.

Deep...