The Hollow
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Last published Thu, May 22, 2025
In a future Britain sealed off from the world, silence has become law and truth is a crime.
Seventeen-year-old Ethan Brandt was never meant to lead a rebellion. He only wanted to keep his little sister safe and make it home before curfew. But when a brutal broadcast declares his parents executed for treason, Ethan is forced underground-into the last pocket of resistance left in a country ruled by the merciless dictator Malrick Vane.
Hunted by drones, haunted by grief, and armed only with his mother's cryptic poems, Ethan is drawn into a world of secrets, sabotage, and the whispered legend of The Hollow.
Beside him stands Kaia Merren, a fierce strategist with eyes like stormlight and scars of her own. Together, they uncover a conspiracy buried in memory and blood-one that links their families, their futures, and a betrayal that could shatter them both.
But in a world where truth is manufactured and even silence can kill, what does it mean to lead without losing yourself?
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