The Hollow Plane (The Aethereals Duology #1) - Allison Carr Waechter

Victoria recommends! Otherworldly fires threaten the fragile balance of power in the city of spires. Two people hold the key to saving Pravhna from destruction, but neither remembers the truth of their past—or what they mean to one another.

When Mina Wildfang finds herself at the bottom of a dark hole, she only remembers one who put her there. Bent on revenge, Mina discovers that someone has murdered the family who imprisoned her—their ancestral estate burned to the ground. Mina’s desire for vengeance deepens into a quest for the truth.

All Ashbourne Claymore wants is a peaceful life of investigating mysteries with his friends—an outcast chevalier and a fey cat. His uncanny loss of memory makes it easy to ignore the ominous feeling that his past is haunted. But with someone setting fires in the undercity and people going missing, he’s given a leave the secure life he’s worked so hard to build, or help Mina Wildfang find the truth.

As Mina, Ashbourne and their friends hunt down the source of the fires and disappearances, the similarities between their forgotten pasts emerge. Can their burgeoning love survive the inferno coming for them? Or will they succumb to the ghosts of their past and let the city burn?

The author of DARK NIGHT GOLDEN DAWN, Allison Carr Waechter, brings you the first book in a suspenseful new gaslamp fantasy romance duology, THE AETHEREALS. With an unforgettable cast of characters and sizzling slow burn romance, THE HOLLOW PLANE explores the value of trust, the price of betrayal—and the unyielding strength of love.

By Allison Carr Waechter. Paperback. 451 pages. Published December 2023.