The Basillica of Hollow Saints

By Alicia Gallaher

The Basilica of Hollow Saints breathes.
Everyone in Vespera knows it. The stained-glass windows pulse after midnight. The bells ring without human hands. Pilgrims travel across continents to kneel before the altar where miracles are bought with blood.
Orphaned theology student Sabine Vey has spent her life studying the cathedral's mysteries from a safe distance.
Until the Order of the Ninth Mercy chooses her.
Taken beneath the basilica's ancient halls, Sabine discovers the horrifying truth hidden beneath centuries of worship:
The cathedral is alive.
Its walls consume flesh. Its saints still whisper inside the stone. And deep beneath the city sleeps an ancient entity that chooses one woman every century to become its Bride Saint-a human soul fused forever with the living church.
Sabine is the next vessel.
As the basilica begins changing her from the inside out, the city descends into religious ecstasy. Hallways open when she bleeds. Priests carve prayers into their own skin at the sound of her voice. The cathedral itself begins calling her deeper beneath the altar toward the monstrous heart pulsing below Vespera.
Only the basilica's immortal guardian-a winged creature bound to the cathedral centuries ago-seems terrified of what Sabine is becoming.
Because sainthood inside Hollow Saints is not salvation.
It is consumption.
And when rival cathedrals buried beneath Europe begin awakening in response to her transformation, Sabine realizes the living basilica beneath Vespera is only one organ in something far older, far hungrier, and far more lonely than humanity has ever imagined.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H1BPWZV8
• ISBN13: 9798196373176
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"