Seventy-five million years ago, a mother’s grief tore reality apart.

Now a girl with starlight in her veins must choose between the weapon she was made to be and the person she wants to become.

Maya never asked to be a Hollow Star — a being forged from the space between light and shadow, carrying a weapon that could unmake the universe. She never asked to be the key to a war that has raged since before humanity drew its first breath.

But the war has found her anyway.

On the run from dark forces that want to use her power, Maya is taken in by Sarah, a battle-hardened soldier of the GDI, and brought to Forgehaven — a hidden fortress where humans and Moxen alike prepare for a conflict that could end all worlds. There she meets Owen, a mysterious warrior who has carried the weight of an impossible duty for longer than any mortal should. And she meets Astra, a child who holds the secret to the wound at the heart of the universe — a wound kept open by grief, by guilt, and by a parent who has been weeping for seventy-five million years.

To stop the coming apocalypse, Maya must travel to the heart of the Antarctic wound and face the being that has consumed galaxies out of love. But the cost of victory may be everything she has come to hold dear — including the family she has only just begun to find.

Because the war was never about destroying the parent.

It was about healing her.

The Hollow Star is a sweeping epic fantasy of found family, impossible choices, and the radical power of forgiveness in a universe that has forgotten how to hope.

Perfect for fans of: Science Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Slow-burn Romance • Dark Found Family

When the universe asks for everything… what do you hold back?

R.M. Alwyn

The Hollow Star ( Book 2) The Silver Blood Series (Paperback)