HSP Taylor
HSP Taylor writes dark fantasy about dragons, war, power, and emotionally complicated people making catastrophic decisions.
She grew up as the quintessential overachieving eldest daughter and now channels that energy into building worlds where the stakes are apocalyptic and the feelings are messily, defiantly human.
When she’s not writing, HSP can usually be found chasing thunderstorms, mainlining strong coffee, watching football on Sundays, sampling good beer, or nurturing a wildly disproportionate obsession with F1.
Hollow's Scale
Riders call it Order. Orian Holloway only sees scales weighted with the bones of the innocent.
Condemned to the continent's infamous prison, Orian should already be dead. After nearly a year of bloodsport with nothing but her father's brutal training and a will sharpened into a weapon, she turns her punishment into a spectacle.
But, her reward is not freedom-it's conscription.
Dragged from the colosseum pit to Aldryn, the neutral citadel designed to carve the kingdom's elite into brutal warriors, Orian is offered a path to the one man she's spent her entire life preparing to assassinate—the High King responsible for her imprisonment in the first place. Among fae nobility and god-marked prodigies, she appears to be a mere human with no magic—but their miscalculation will be her greatest advantage.
As lethal rites turn recruits into dragon riders and alliances twist into betrayals, Orian finds herself drawn to the very people she was raised to hate, especially the prince whose loyalty could destroy everything she has fought for.
Balance will be restored, and Orian plans to be left standing when the scales finally break.
Publication
US: Emrae Publishing
Release date: 7 July 2027
