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Hollowborn:
Roots
Being forgotten is all Elias Cooper has ever known. Being hunted is new.
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HollowbornRoots
To be forgotten is to be hunted.
Elias Cooper is the most forgettable man in Ohio. Even his parents forget his name. Then a vampire tried to eat him and discovered he breaks magic just by existing. Now the monsters remember him, and they are not sending birthday cards.
Adult urban fantasy
Found family
Dark humor
Maine Coon Cat with a god complex
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Meet your new problem
An ordinary man. An extraordinary inconvenience.
“Apparently, being forgettable is more dangerous than I thought.”
VampiresFeyMagic gone wrong
My coworkers call me “Cart Guy.” Even my parents forget my name. It's Elias Cooper, by the way. My crowning achievement is shelving books for years and only getting tased by security once, for trespassing at my own job.
Then a vampire tried to eat me and immediately regretted it. Apparently, the supernatural starts to unravel if it gets too close to me. According to Lila, my terrifyingly competent coworker (and, as it turns out, a mage), I'm a walking dead zone for magic. A magical EMP, if you will.
Now I'm being remembered by things that want to collect me, kill me, or both. I'm five foot seven, holding a shotgun, and working with a survival plan that would be generously called questionable.
The Hollowborn Series
The trouble doesn't end with one book.
Magic, monsters, questionable plans, and the people who keep choosing each other anyway.
Hollowborn:
Book Two · Coming Soon
Hollowborn:
Thorns
Being noticed was only the beginning. The next Hollowborn novel brings sharper dangers, harder choices, and consequences Elias never saw coming.
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Praise for Hollowborn: Roots
Word is getting around.
Apparently Elias can't stay forgotten forever.
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Behind the Books
Meet Joshua Arnold.
Joshua Arnold writes funny-dark adult urban fantasy where magic has rules, monsters remember, and found family matters more than anyone wants to admit.
By day, he works in cybersecurity, explaining invisible threats to people who'd usually rather not believe in them. By night, he writes about vampires, fey, ancient bargains, talking cats, and supernatural disasters hiding in plain sight.
His debut novel, Hollowborn: Roots, introduces Elias Cooper: a librarian so forgettable that even his own parents struggle to remember him. The sequel, Hollowborn: Thorns, is on the way.
When he isn't writing, Joshua is usually reading, spending time with his family, painting miniatures, or having his fictional magic systems interrogated by the world's least cooperative cat.
Published through Ashthorne Press, Joshua's independent publishing imprint.
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