Death took him.

Love brought him back.

Something ancient waits.

When Nokoa is killed, Renata SunThorne's world fractures. Refusing to surrender him to the grave, she turns to the Hollow Crown-a relic forged from dead rulers and the god buried beneath the kingdom's foundations. Its whispers promise resurrection. Its price is far more than she understands.

Her ritual drags Nokoa's soul from the void-but not cleanly. He awakens caught between life and death, rebuilt from bone and memory, haunted by a god who waits in the darkness he crossed. Renata, unraveling under the Crown's influence, sees only the promise of their reunion. As she descends deeper into obsession and ritual magic, the boundary between love and ruin thins to a thread.

The voices of dead rulers whisper in her crown. The spectral dead answer her call. And the Bone God watches-patient, hungry, and certain that Renata's grief will open the final door.

When devotion becomes delusion

and resurrection becomes a weapon,

What remains of the love that started it all?