The-Hollow-Choir

Every ward has a price. Not every price is paid willingly.

Wren Ashworth's older sister Ivy was the best Wardsinger the Corvane Conservatory had produced in a generation — right up until the night she vanished from a warded room with the door locked from the inside, and came back three days later with no memory of her own name and no voice left to sing with. The Conservatory called it a training accident. Wren has never believed that.

A year later, Wren arrives at Corvane Point under her sister's old name, determined to find out what really happened. But Ivy wasn't the last student to go quiet. Someone — or something — inside the Conservatory is silencing its most talented Wardsingers one at a time, erasing their songs and the memories underneath them, and dressing the wreckage up as accidents.

As Wren gets closer to the truth, with the help of her fiercely loyal roommate, a rival-turned-ally with her own reasons to dig, and a senior student who knows more about the school's tunnels than he should, she realizes the person responsible isn't hiding in the shadows at the edge of the school. They're standing at the front of her classroom. And everyone trusts them completely.

THE HOLLOW CHOIR is a young adult fantasy mystery about grief, trust, and the cost of being believed — set in a boarding school where the most dangerous thing isn't the monster at the edge of the map. It's the one who taught you how to sing.

For readers of atmospheric school mysteries with a body count measured in silence rather than blood — where the question isn't whether someone will get hurt, but whether anyone will still remember them clearly enough to grieve it properly.