Echoes of the Devoured

Kael Veyr has spent his life carrying corpses through Bonehaven, a city built inside the bones of an ancient beast. He knows better than to trust the Church, touch an unlicensed Echo Core, or listen to what the dead leave behind.

Then the Church chooses his fourteen-year-old sister, Lia, for Ascension—a sacred ceremony from which no child ever returns.

To save her, Kael swallows a forbidden Hollow Core and gains the power to relive the final ten seconds of the dead—and borrow the last ability they used. But every time he calls upon that power, the core devours one of his own memories.

As the ceremony approaches, Kael uncovers the truth beneath Bonehaven: the city is still alive, its holy offerings are human sacrifices, and Lia is not merely another victim. She is the key to awakening something that has been feeding on stolen memories for centuries.

To rescue her, Kael must descend into the living darkness beneath the city and risk losing everything that makes him who he is.

Because even if he saves Lia, he may no longer remember her.

And the creature beneath Bonehaven remembers them both.