Shadow and Feather

Shadow and Feather

The veil between life and death has never been thinner.

Robin Sullivan thought she understood the cost of her second life. She was wrong. Site-17 was supposed to be sealed, its horrors buried with the cadets who never made it out. Instead, it’s awake—and waiting.

Inside the Hollow, the Academy’s lies rot into truth: half-souls that refuse to die, corrupted cadets that move like predators, and Phoenix—the underworld’s silent sentinel—marking Robin with a fire-and-ice warning she can’t ignore. Every step forward cuts deeper into the mystery of her infection and her family’s legacy, binding her fate to a secret older than the Academy itself.

Her squad is more fractured than ever. Jude, her sharp-edged half-brother, pushes her to trust him while hiding his own ghosts. David watches her with the steady intensity of someone who remembers more about their past than he admits. And Ashley, loyal and unbreakable, is the anchor that keeps them from splintering under the Academy’s manipulation. Trusting the wrong person could cost all of them their second lives—permanently.

As Wren’s pull tugs harder from the living world and Phoenix circles closer with feathers of frost and flame, Robin faces a truth she’s not ready to face. The Hollow doesn’t just want to consume her. It remembers her.

The Academy may call this a mission. Robin knows better. This is a reckoning.

Shadow and Feather is the explosive next chapter of the Hellhound Academy series—where undead cadets, broken loyalties, and Death’s own messenger collide in a battle for the truth.

Fans of Supernatural and The Witcher will devour this dark urban fantasy packed with relentless action, razor-sharp banter, and a heroine who refuses to stay buried.

Step into the Hollow. Robin’s fight is just beginning.

Martha Carr

with Michael Anderle

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