The Hollow Sky

A Mythic Fantasy of Gods and Belief

BEFORE THE PROPHECY, BEFORE THE KINGDOMS, THE STONES WERE LISTENING.

The valley is older than its names. Its people stack stones beside roads and cannot say why. There are no kingdoms yet, no priests, no prophecy. Only cairns, and the feeling that the stones are listening. Then the sky tears, and a man falls out of it. Mara pulls him from the river with broken ribs and no memory. The village gives him soup, work and a careful distance. But his wounds close too fast. A dying bird does not stay dying near him. And the oldest cairn on the western hill has begun to hum a message meant for him alone. A village can forgive a stranger almost anything except a miracle. As word spreads and strangers begin to kneel, two vast presences take notice of the valley: one that perfects everything it touches, and one that dissolves it. Kael wanted only to be ordinary. The world is about to make that impossible.

509 pages · Perch Press

Book 3 of The Prophecy of Ruin Saga and Book One of the Cairnstone Duology. The story continues in The Cairnmaker.