Eila Rose D'Aubigne has spent years trying to explain away the impossible. What others call trauma, illness or fracture has never behaved as it should. There are sensations without source. Colours without form. And a growing certainty that the hollow within her is not absence at all.

When she is drawn to a remote Tasmanian community and the decaying institution of Diemens, that certainty begins to unravel.

At the same time, a violent death draws Eden Keenan-Ward into an investigation that defies explanation. As his path converges with Eila's—and with Boaz Rowan-Ward, whose presence offers a fragile kind of hope—the world begins to shift toward something older than memory and darker than reason.

Beneath it all lies the Scald. And from it, the Long Shadow. It does not destroy. It inhabits.

Set against Tasmania's wild, haunted landscapes, The Hollow Star: The Colour of Absence is a dark, mythic fantasy of memory, consequence, and the quiet devastating cost of holding back what cannot be undone.

Approximately 97,000 words.

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