Hollowborne: Inferno: The Korrath Trilogy, Book 2

By John Leffel

The ash still falls. But now, something is falling with it.

Cael Vantris survived a Veil breach, a class that should have killed him, and the six most powerful people in Bastion Korrath trying to erase him. He consumed corrupted essence and reforged it into something pure. He built a crew that fights like family and bleeds like one too.

None of it was enough.

Beyond Korrath's walls, other Bastion Cities are dying. Organized Blighted armies move with strategy, not instinct. Corrupted essence storms crack Veils that have held for centuries. And at the center of it all, an ancient consciousness stirs - the Hollow King - a fragment of something older than the Sundering itself, made of two hundred years of poison given will and purpose.

Cael isn't just a target anymore. He's a pattern. Every previous Hollowborne holder was hunted down and killed - not by governments or politics, but by the system itself. An automated immune response that can't tell the difference between the disease and the cure.

The system is damaged. It's been screaming for help, and no one could hear it.

Now Cael has to unite cities that would rather watch each other burn, protect a crew with secrets that could shatter them, and face a consciousness that doesn't just want to destroy him - it wants him to *choose* destruction willingly. Because the corrupted essence he absorbed in Korrath didn't just leave a mark.

It left a voice.

And it's offering him everything.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H14PFP3H
• ISBN13: 9798195593285
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 732 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.6" x 6.0"