The Rite of Recognition

By T L Johnson

In Velkyn's Hollow, magic is witnessed, recorded, and controlled-or so the council insists.

Nuria Vale has spent her life watching the town accept its rituals as truth. As a forger, she knows better than most that something can be made to look inevitable merely because skilled hands have shaped it that way. She has no intention of becoming another answer entered neatly into someone else's ledger.

Then an impossible connection begins to surface between Nuria and Kayd Merrick: a quiet, undeniable thread that does not follow the rules the Hollow has built its life around. As the council moves to contain what it cannot neatly name, Nuria and Kayd must decide whether they will allow fear, tradition, and public expectation to define them-or risk choosing one another in full view of a town that believes it has the right to witness every truth.

The Rite of Recognition is an atmospheric, slow-burn romantic fantasy about devotion, self-authorship, and the dangerous tenderness of being seen clearly. The first in the Velkyn's Hollow series, it stands alone with a complete love story.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9J3LX9Q
• ISBN13: 9798999436160
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Midnight Haven Books
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"