Hollowfire

The general gave me until sunrise to surrender.
I went underground... and found what he buried there two centuries ago.

Thorne's ultimatum expired. His soldiers descended. And I chose the only path he didn't control: down. Below the Seventh Landing. Below the sealed chambers. Into the deep Tombs where no one has walked in two hundred years.

I didn't go alone.

Bastian - who stepped between me and armed soldiers, denounced five generations of his family's crimes in front of witnesses, and finally - finally - stopped holding back.
Leander - who proved the conspiracy didn't start with Dragonsouls. It started with the people they replaced.
Sable - whose healing hands are the only thing standing between me and the damage my own power is doing to my body.
Orion - who reads the shape of what's growing in the deep through a gravity map only he can see... and carries the timeline he won't say out loud.

An entire civilization lived in these depths once. They tended the dying. They kept the grief flowing instead of pooling. The military destroyed them and built the academy on their graves - and the grief has been compressing ever since.

When I opened myself to the dead, two hundred years of unspoken names poured through me. Keepers. Dragonsouls. People killed and forgotten. Every one of them screaming to be heard.

And below everything - beneath the grief, the dark, the thing pulling the Gorge toward collapse -

A heartbeat.

One I know.

Hollowfire is a scorching fantasy why choose romance featuring dragon riders, a desperate underground flight, the slow burn finally igniting after two books, a badass heroine descending into the deep to unearth the truth, a cliffhanger ending, and a guaranteed HEA for the series. Book 3 of the Dragonfall Academy series.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Dragon rider academies with ancient, forbidden depths
• Why choose romance where four devoted heroes hold the line
• The slow burn finally detonating - worth every charged moment
• "Touch her and die" - the Elderwyrms don't make exceptions
• Military conspiracies buried two centuries deep
• Found family forged under siege in the dark
• Spirit dragon lore and the grief of the dead
• A strong heroine who goes deeper than anyone dared
• Happily-ever-after guaranteed for the series