{"product_id":"hollow-ground-vesper-wolfe-9798257609671","title":"Hollow Ground: A Dark Reverse Harem Paranormal Academy Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy ancestor walked into the dark three hundred years ago.\u003cbr\u003eI can \u003ci\u003efinally\u003c\/i\u003e hear her calling my name.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Council of Bone has taken Thornveil. Six ships, a dozen magistrates, an enforcer with an iron-and-bone staff, and the father who disowned Dorian at their center with a motion to put me in chains. The Ossuary is sealed. The Blackwell Crypt is restricted. My movements are watched at every stairwell. And beneath all of it, the thing my grandmother bled thirty-seven years to contain is done waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cage is \u003ci\u003ehours\u003c\/i\u003e from collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only thing standing between Thornveil and the end of the Veil is four morally gray necromancers who chose me at the cost of everything else: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeckett Crane\u003c\/b\u003e-bone-magic heir, the steadiest thing in a world that is coming apart, the floor I stand on when nothing else will hold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCorvin Blackthorn\u003c\/b\u003e-his shadow was born inside the entity and re-rooted inside me, and the entity has decided it wants it \u003ci\u003eback.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorian Ashworth\u003c\/b\u003e-burned his name for me and now has to carry the fact that his family wrote the lie that started this.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEzra Quinn\u003c\/b\u003e-the haunted Death Sight heir whose bond is the last wall I need, and the only one who can take me close enough to \u003ci\u003ehear\u003c\/i\u003e her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer name is Morwenna. She is my blood. She walked into the entity three centuries ago to hold a door the Council refused to help her close, and she has been holding it every second since. The Council called it an execution. My grandmother called it a \u003ci\u003ecost.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the fourth bond seats, I finally reach her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd when I do, she names the price of freeing her-the price that my grandmother carried to her grave rather than speak aloud-and it is a price I will \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e pay, and I will not let anyone else pay either.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour bonds. One ancient binding. A cage built on the bones of Blackwell women. A Council that has been lying for three hundred years. And a bayou swamp in Louisiana where my grandmother buried something my ancestors hid long before she was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHollow ground under my feet...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHollow ground \u003ci\u003eall the way down.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHollow Ground\u003c\/b\u003e is the third book in the \u003cb\u003eThornveil Academy\u003c\/b\u003e series-a spicy dark paranormal why choose romance set in a Gothic necromancy academy on the cliffs of Maine and a Veil Thin voodoo bayou deep in the Louisiana swamp, with four possessive necromancer heirs, a morally gray bully romance dynamic burning at full heat, a fearless badass FMC, an ancestor trapped in the dark, and an ending that will wreck you. Reverse harem. Slow burn. Enemies to lovers. HEA by the end of the series. Ends on a brutal cliffhanger.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for readers who love: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Dark academia under siege and a Gothic academy with the dead in the walls\u003cbr\u003e- A strong FMC who will not put another woman in a cage to save herself\u003cbr\u003e- Four possessive necromancers, each one with a different kind of devotion\u003cbr\u003e- Morally gray heroes, soulbound fate, fated mate intensity\u003cbr\u003e- Bully romance and enemies to lovers slow burn at full boil\u003cbr\u003e- Louisiana bayou Gothic-cypress, Spanish moss, dark water, and an unmarked grave\u003cbr\u003e- Forced proximity, hurt comfort, touch her and die\u003cbr\u003e- Bone magic, shadow magic, spirit summoning, death sight\u003cbr\u003e- A three-hundred-year cover-up and an ancestor finally reaching back\u003cbr\u003e- Cliffhangers that hurt so good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vesper Wolfe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798257609671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.06d","brand":"Vesper Wolfe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665435431167,"sku":"9798257609671","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hollow-ground-vesper-wolfe-9798257609671","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}