What The Dead Remember
(2026)(The first book in the Hollow City Chronicles series)
A novel by Craig R Mitton
Some doors should stay closed. Some ghosts should stay quiet. Serenya Halász has built her entire life around knowing the difference.
Serenya is a forensic death consultant — the kind clients hire when the official record doesn't match what the dead are still trying to say. She pulls echoes from the Shallows, asks her questions, and keeps everything at a professional distance. It's worked for eight years. It works right up until a retired judge's echo stops mid-sentence and someone else speaks instead.
Cian Ashford has been dead since 1813. He is coherent, precise, occasionally insufferable, and he has been waiting in the Shallows for over two centuries for a sorceress willing to leave the door open long enough to hear what he has to say. What he has to say is this: the judge's death was not an accident. Neither was his. And the people responsible have been running Toronto's dead through an arrangement with something ancient and hungry for longer than the city has had its current name.
The case pulls Serenya deeper than she has gone since a pull at twenty-four cost her three weeks she has never recovered. The man beside her is dead, bound to her by blood and intention, growing more into her world with every day she refuses to examine why. The administrators are patient, the door at the end of the tunnel is older than the city, and the thing behind it has noticed her.
She is not closing the case.
What the Dead Rememberis the first book in the Hollow City Chronicles — a dark, explicit paranormal romance set in the shadows beneath Toronto, where the dead don't rest and the living aren't always what they seem.
Readers of Kim Harrison, Nalini Singh, and Jeaniene Frost will feel at home in the dark.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Serenya is a forensic death consultant — the kind clients hire when the official record doesn't match what the dead are still trying to say. She pulls echoes from the Shallows, asks her questions, and keeps everything at a professional distance. It's worked for eight years. It works right up until a retired judge's echo stops mid-sentence and someone else speaks instead.
Cian Ashford has been dead since 1813. He is coherent, precise, occasionally insufferable, and he has been waiting in the Shallows for over two centuries for a sorceress willing to leave the door open long enough to hear what he has to say. What he has to say is this: the judge's death was not an accident. Neither was his. And the people responsible have been running Toronto's dead through an arrangement with something ancient and hungry for longer than the city has had its current name.
The case pulls Serenya deeper than she has gone since a pull at twenty-four cost her three weeks she has never recovered. The man beside her is dead, bound to her by blood and intention, growing more into her world with every day she refuses to examine why. The administrators are patient, the door at the end of the tunnel is older than the city, and the thing behind it has noticed her.
She is not closing the case.
What the Dead Rememberis the first book in the Hollow City Chronicles — a dark, explicit paranormal romance set in the shadows beneath Toronto, where the dead don't rest and the living aren't always what they seem.
Readers of Kim Harrison, Nalini Singh, and Jeaniene Frost will feel at home in the dark.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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