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The Hollow Season
"Every city has two governments—the one that holds elections, and the one that holds everything else."
Caldwell City smells like burnt copper and rain. To most, it's just another decaying industrial town. But occupying the exact same physical space, running at a frequency civilian minds can't perceive, is the Underloft.
Cairn Maddox makes his living in the deadly margin between the two. Once a Hollow Runner for the Dusk Bureau—the Underloft’s ruthless enforcement arm—he walked away with a severed career and a permanent scar across his face. Now, he operates as a private investigator, scraping by on the mundane streets.
But you can never really leave the Underloft.
When Isolde Varek, a woman of sharp angles and absolute composure, walks into his office, she brings a case that shouldn't be possible. Her brother is dead, officially of a cardiac event. But her brother was a Threshold Keeper—one of the immortal anchors maintaining the fragile membrane between the magical and mundane worlds. He was assassinated using a forgotten, impossible technique.
Someone is hunting the Keepers.
Aided by his relentlessly pragmatic forensic accountant, Dessa Vane, Cairn is pulled into a conspiracy that forces him back into the crosshairs of the man who scarred him. A ticking clock has started. If the remaining Keepers fall, the boundary will collapse, and Caldwell City will drown in five hundred years of hidden supernatural history.
Perfect for fans of gritty supernatural detective fiction and urban fantasy noir, The Hollow Season is the atmospheric, hard-hitting debut of the Cairn Maddox Investigations series.
Step into the space between. Grab your copy today.
Caldwell City smells like burnt copper and rain. To most, it's just another decaying industrial town. But occupying the exact same physical space, running at a frequency civilian minds can't perceive, is the Underloft.
Cairn Maddox makes his living in the deadly margin between the two. Once a Hollow Runner for the Dusk Bureau—the Underloft’s ruthless enforcement arm—he walked away with a severed career and a permanent scar across his face. Now, he operates as a private investigator, scraping by on the mundane streets.
But you can never really leave the Underloft.
When Isolde Varek, a woman of sharp angles and absolute composure, walks into his office, she brings a case that shouldn't be possible. Her brother is dead, officially of a cardiac event. But her brother was a Threshold Keeper—one of the immortal anchors maintaining the fragile membrane between the magical and mundane worlds. He was assassinated using a forgotten, impossible technique.
Someone is hunting the Keepers.
Aided by his relentlessly pragmatic forensic accountant, Dessa Vane, Cairn is pulled into a conspiracy that forces him back into the crosshairs of the man who scarred him. A ticking clock has started. If the remaining Keepers fall, the boundary will collapse, and Caldwell City will drown in five hundred years of hidden supernatural history.
Perfect for fans of gritty supernatural detective fiction and urban fantasy noir, The Hollow Season is the atmospheric, hard-hitting debut of the Cairn Maddox Investigations series.
Step into the space between. Grab your copy today.
125 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 21, 2026
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May 7, 2026
OMG! The author had me with his descriptions. Check out my highlights for a few of them. No need to worry, the plot is worth it, too.
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