Carl Jackson made a promise twenty years ago: protect Kevin at all costs.

He failed.

Now Kevin lies comatose in a hospital bed, his soul ripped into Rowen — a frozen wasteland where emotions are not metaphors but forces of nature. Rage burns cities. Grief floods valleys. Unprocessed trauma becomes a weapon that cannot be outrun.

Carl breaches protocol, abandons his celestial powers, and follows his best friend into a realm that operates on one brutal law: you cannot fight your way out of a wound you refuse to acknowledge.

But the man Carl finds isn't the friend he remembers. Captain Kevin is a Hollow Soldier — emotionless, efficient, commanding with no memory of the life he left behind. When a fanatical zealot forces a cursed Power Sword into Kevin's hands, the hollow shell fills with twenty years of buried rage and transforms him into a living inferno threatening to burn Rowen to ash.

To save his friend, Carl must do the one thing he has never been able to do.

Stop fighting. Start listening.

Book 1 of 5. All books available now.

The Hollow Sword Master is a completed five-book epic. Perfect for readers who want the deep, trauma-informed character arcs of Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive mixed with the surreal, psychological survival of Sword Art Online.