Iron Bloom.. Hollow Sun
In a world kissed by a dying sun, to be born with power is not a gift. It is a sentence. Solara is a land held together by the cracked, bleeding....
In a world kissed by a dying sun, to be born with power is not a gift. It is a sentence. Solara is a land held together by the cracked, bleeding light of the Hollow Sun — a celestial body so ancient and so wounded that its light no longer simply illuminates. It curses. Those born beneath its peak glow are marked from their first breath — Hollow Born. Extraordinary. Hunted. Expendable. Kael Dawnveil knows this better than most. Orphaned at seven when the Sovereign's soldiers came for him and took everything else instead, Kael was forged in the unforgiving heat of the Ashlands — a wasteland where the unwanted become warriors and survival is the only currency that matters. For twelve years he has kept his power buried, his past quiet and his future deliberately small. Then a child arrives at his doorstep carrying the same mark he has spent his life hiding — and everything Kael swore he would never do, he does without hesitation. One sacrifice leads him straight into the golden jaws of Aurenfall — a kingdom breathtaking on the surface and rotting underneath. Inside its walls Kael discovers a truth that reframes everything he thought he understood about the Hollow Sun, the Sovereign and the curse written into his own blood. The sun is not dying on its own. Something is killing it. And the Hollow Born are the only ones who can stop what happens when it finally goes dark. But power has a price in Solara. Every time Kael blooms he becomes more extraordinary and less alive. The very thing that makes him the world's greatest weapon is quietly, certainly, counting down to his last breath. Somewhere at the edge of the world the Veildeep waits in permanent shadow — ancient, watching, aware. And it has just noticed Kael. Iron Bloom is a story about what survives loss, what blooms from pain and what one person is worth when the entire world is burning.
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