Hollowthorn
A servant girl, Wren, has spent eleven years perfecting the art of invisibility, her every breath a silent prayer to remain unnoticed in a court teeming with dangerous secrets. But....
A servant girl, Wren, has spent eleven years perfecting the art of invisibility, her every breath a silent prayer to remain unnoticed in a court teeming with dangerous secrets. But tonight, as the Queen's Warden of Truths, Lord Ashgrove, patrols the Binding Feast with his lie-sniffing Bellhound, Wren's carefully constructed facade begins to crack. The hound, a chilling artifact that hums at the scent of forbidden magic, draws ever closer, its song a prelude to a past Wren thought buried in ash and fire. She carries a secret, a dormant power that stirs beneath her skin, a thorn magic she inherited from a family Ashgrove himself destroyed. Now, with the Bellhound hunting something specific—something that feels terrifyingly like her—Wren must navigate a treacherous dance between exposure and survival, knowing one wrong move could reveal the truth she’s fought so long to conceal. Can she outwit the Warden and his hound, or will the echoes of Hollowthorn finally claim her?