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Ashborn: A Hollow Court Novel
Paperback
Series: The Hollow Court: A Dark Fantasy Romance, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 14 2026
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Something is growing in the Ashfields. Something that shouldn't exist.
Six months after striking the chord that rebuilt the Veil, Sera Voss and Kael have built the Ironhold - a fortress between worlds, a fragile embassy of iron and shadow where mortal and fae diplomats negotiate an uneasy peace. But the dead land beyond their walls - the Ashfields, scorched three thousand years ago in the war that separated the worlds - is no longer dead.
A garden has appeared. Impossible. Green. Growing in soil that hasn't produced life in three millennia.
And the thing growing in the garden is not just a plant. It's a child.
Born from the chord - from the intersection of Sera's mortal iron and Kael's fae shadow - the Ashborn is the first being in three thousand years to belong to both worlds. A living bridge. A new kind of life. An entity whose very existence is rewriting the Veil and reshaping the barrier between realities.
Every court wants it.
The Summerlands offer nurture - with roots that grow in directions you don't expect. The Nighthold offers protection - at the price of control. The Shadow Court moves in silence, positioning pieces in a game that began long before the Ashborn's birth. And the Wild Hunt - the primal force that devoured the last Ashborn three thousand years ago - is waking. Assembling. Hungry.
But Ash is not a weapon. Not a tool. Not a prize to be claimed.
Ash is a child. A child who absorbs knowledge with a touch, who grows faster than any being in either world, and who is hurtling toward the Choosing - the moment when the forces inside it will demand a decision that will determine the fate of both worlds.
If the iron wins, the Veil seals forever. The worlds separate. The fae realm withers.
If the shadow wins, the Veil dissolves. The worlds collide. Everything burns.
If Ash can find a third path - the golden path, the path of Between - everything changes. Everything grows.
But finding a third path requires something no Ashborn has ever had: parents willing to hold the line.
Sera will forge weapons from her own blood. Kael will turn his shadows into shelter. A last Keeper will honor a three-thousand-year oath. And a child will face the most consequential choice in the history of two worlds - not as a weapon, not as a bridge, but as a garden.
Because gardens don't choose sides. They just grow.
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