The Hollow Veil

The Book

A city that remembers

Bucharest is a city of demolished quarters, churches moved on rails and legends older than its walls. In The Hollow Veil, those walls are listening.

Book One begins in winter, in the rain, with a death the police write off as a heart attack and a paramedic describes in a single line no one will read. What follows is a story about memory as a physical force: what stone keeps, what the dead leave behind, and what it costs the living to see it.

It is written with a poet’s precision and a storyteller’s appetite for the uncanny: the weight of a hand, the grain of old brick, the silence of a house after someone is gone.

“Silas Fen writes about the places that remember us.”

• TitleThe Hollow Veil: The Awakening
• SeriesBook One of five
• GenreDark fantasy
• SettingModern Bucharest, Romania
• PublisherRustic Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• StatusEarly-reader edition now open by invitation

The Author

Silas Fen

Silas Fen writes about the places that remember us.

Before turning to fiction, Fen published two collections of poetry, Ink and Embers and Where the Missing Things Go, pairing each poem with an image so the work could be read twice: once in words, once in light. That eye for the exact detail runs through the Veil, where every wall holds the memory of the lives lived against it.

Visit The Rustic Poet →

Credits

• AuthorSilas Fen
• CoverAmy Dakos & Silas Fen
• Book designAmy Dakos
• Edited byCarrie Ann Barnett
• Branding & series identityiT Designs
• Marketing & launchiT Designs
• Website design & developmentiT Designs
• Reader preview & hostingiT Designs