Urban fantasy romance
Hollow Echoes
Death keeps books. Love refuses to balance them.
Enter the ledgerSomewhere beneath Chicago, the oldest company in the world keeps a ledger of every ending it owns. Jack Merrick can read the worst thing an object has ever seen. Vivian Cross can hear death on its way. Neither gift has made life easier.
The Hollow Echoes trilogy
Book One
He can see how you died. She knows when you will.
Jack Merrick reads the past with one bare hand. The trouble is that every echo takes one of his own memories in return. Vivian Cross hears death coming as music. When five strangers die on the same impossible beat, the case leads them to a hidden market, a midnight auction, and a company that has spent four hundred years putting a price on the dead.
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Coming soonBook Two
The firm that owns every ending has finally come to collect.
The auditors have opened Jack's account. Every week, they take another memory of Vivian. She has until All Souls' Day to make a case before a court that has never lost one, while something drowned and patient waits for its chance to collect him first.
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Coming soonBook Three · The Finale
The audit is over. The verdict is liquidation. The account it empties is a man.
Jack is the vault. Four centuries of deferred deaths are locked inside him, and the Estate intends to pay them all out at once. Vivian can hear the date getting closer. Their last chance involves a wedding, a child waking inside the vault, and a plan for death itself.
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About the author
C.T. Rook writes urban fantasy set in old cities, where the paperwork is dangerous and every bargain has fine print. Hollow Echoes is a slow-burn romance about a detective who hears death coming, an investigator who loses a memory every time he touches the past, and a Chicago firm that would very much like them to stop asking questions.
Keep what matters. Say it back.