The Aeonveil Chronicles · Book Two

Hollow of the Storm

She came back to find answers. She was not prepared for what was waiting.

Two years in Auralis, and Vivienne Arquette is no closer to understanding what broke the sky above Aetheris the night she lost everything. She returns to Altemira carrying storm records no one asked for, grief she never learned to set down, and questions the court would prefer she stopped asking.

Appointed to the High Lord's household as Royal Scribe, she is closer to the truth than she has ever been — and more exposed than she has ever allowed herself to be. The storms have worsened, leaving destruction across the realm's roads and borders. The Aether Towers are failing. And the political pressure building between Aestas and its neighbouring realms has begun to sound less like diplomacy and more like the silence before a decision that cannot be undone.

The man she meets in the Royal Archive unsettles her in ways she cannot yet name. His interest in her research is too specific. His Hue tells her nothing at all.

Something has been patient for a very long time. It has decided it is finished waiting.

Hollow of the Storm is the second book in The Aeonveil Chronicles: a five-book epic fantasy series set in the Victorian-atmosphere world of Elyndar, where the barrier between gods and mortals is breaking — and the fractures are beginning to show.