Ember of the Hollow King - eBook

“No Kings. No Causes. Just Roads.”

In the ruined remains of Ash Town, Remos survives by a simple code: keep your head down, keep your knots tight, and never promise what you can’t pay for. He is a man who knows the exact weight of his own soul, and he keeps it light to stay ahead of the past.

But when a dying rider crashes into his scavenged life carrying a warning about an ancient evil waking beneath the earth, Remos makes the one mistake a survivor can’t afford: he stops to help.

The Hollow King is stirring—a parasitic force of bone and silence that devours names and demands total obedience. To stop it, Remos must shepherd a ragtag band of outcasts—a disgraced royal guard, a monk with a lantern of blue fire, a thief with a grin like a knife, and a boy who counts to keep his courage—across a wasteland ruled by fear.

Their burden? The Ember. A spark of living heat that is the only cure for the King’s hollow silence.

Hunted by an army of bone-clad zealots and tempted by the siren song of surrender, Remos must decide what kind of man he is. Is he a coward who counts the cost, or a leader who chooses people over peace?

For fans of Joe Abercrombie’s grit and Ursula K. Le Guin’s heart, Ember of the Hollow King is a story about the small oaths that hold the world together when the big ones fail.