Book One of The Hollow Road

The Light of
Riversong

“This is a story about the good guys winning. I promise.”

Coming soon on Amazon in Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and paperback.

The Light of Riversong front cover: glowing title type over a man in a dark suit with glowing blue glasses holding a glowing staff

Where the river sings, we will protect.

The Book

The Light of Riversong

Everyone knows what happened four years ago. The Night of Anguish killed the greatest knights of the magical world, the rangers who guarded its children were disbanded within the year, and Sebastian Strider, the mundane-born son who was going to change the world, was mourned with the rest of the heroes who raised him.

Sebastian survived. He has spent four years healing far from home, and in those four years the enemy that killed his family has kept taking children born with magic. A man can only hear about that for so long.

He comes home to a living land that answers the people it loves and has been waiting at the door for four years. He comes home to a family that feeds you, names you, and teaches you to stand on water, and that buries the people who touch its children. And he comes home to a boy named Louie, who has spent his whole life in a school that tells him he is terrible at magic, and who is about to find out how wrong a school can be about a person.

The Light of Riversong is epic fantasy with deep magic, sprawling worlds, and families worth protecting, from a writer who grew up on anime, comics, and manga and never really stopped. It opens on a promise, and it keeps it: this is a story about the good guys winning.

For readers of Brandon Sanderson, Jim Butcher, and Evan Winter.
On Amazon at launch: Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and paperback.

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Where the river sings, we will protect.
Who the river brings, we will respect.
The heart that flows through our domain,
No Hollow’s touch will ever stain.

Aloysius Abrego, Lord Cirrus, The First

The World

The Nine Domains

…and the Hollow Hills at their dead heart.

Aged parchment map of the Nine Domains, with the Hollow Hills marked in red at their dead heart

The Domains

Nine domains, raised a thousand years ago to keep the dark below the ground. Nine hearts, one body.

The Rangers

Sworn to guard the magical world’s children. The Night of Anguish disbanded them within the year.

The Cloud Knights

The greatest knights of the magical world, recognized by the Arcanum and the Åven alike. Named for the storm the first nine built together.

The Magic

Rasa is the one energy, in everything and everyone. All magic is one magic, and it flows as rasa.

From the Riversong Universe

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Hollow Road Novels

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Book One

The Light of Riversong

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Book Two

The Strongest of Sunbreak

Cloud Chronicle Novellas

Every October cover: a boy with glasses holding a staff level in both hands, blue fire and falling leaves around him October 2026

Novella I

Every October

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Novella II

The Best Intentions

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Novella III

The Best Impressions

The Author

H.C. Brook

H.C. Brook is a nerd who loves stories. He grew up on anime, comics, and manga, forever dreaming up worlds of his own, and he never really stopped. Now he writes the kind of epic fantasy he always went looking for: deep magic, sprawling worlds, and families worth protecting.

He works in technical operations; the rest of his hours go to the garden and road trips with his wife. The Light of Riversong is his first novel, finished just before he and his wife welcomed their first child.