Hollowborn Roots

The Hollowborn Series: Book 1

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Genres

Dark Fantasy, Dark Humor, Paranormal, Supernatural, Found Family, Urban Fantasy, Adult, Contemporary, Novels, and Debut

Trigger Warnings

Death, Sex, and Violence

Type of Ending

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Sep 16, 2026

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348 pages

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Hollowborn Roots

The Hollowborn Series: Book 1

Advance Reader Copy

Blurb

To be forgotten is to be hunted.

Apparently, being forgettable is more dangerous than I thought.

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. I've spent most of my life trying to be seen.

Then a vampire tried to eat me and immediately regretted it. Apparently, the supernatural starts to unravel if it gets too close to me. At least that is what Lila—my terrifyingly competent coworker, and as it turns out a mage—says. According to her, I am a walking dead zone for magic. A magical EMP if you will.

That one event throws me into a hidden world of vampires, fey, and magic. For the first time in my life, I'm being remembered by things that want to collect me, kill me, or both.

I'm not exactly action-hero material. I'm five foot seven. But when the supernatural hits the fan, the most forgettable man in Ohio is left holding a shotgun and a survival plan that would be generously called questionable.

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Genres

Dark Fantasy, Dark Humor, Paranormal, Supernatural, Found Family, Urban Fantasy, Adult, Contemporary, Novels, and Debut

Trigger Warnings

Death, Sex, and Violence

Type of Ending

Series

The Hollowborn Series — Book 1

Author Prefers A Review On

Goodreads or Amazon

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Number of days to read

Publication Date

Sep 16, 2026

Page Length

348 pages

Available Formats

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Author

Joshua Arnold writes funny, dark adult urban fantasy where magic has rules, monsters remember, found family matters, and the quiet guy in the library is probably the problem.

By day, he works in cybersecurity, explaining invisible threats to people who would 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, follows Elias Cooper, a forgettable librarian whose absence from the world turns out to be the one thing monsters cannot ignore.

When he isn’t writing, Joshua is usually reading, overthinking fictional magic systems, spending time with his family, or being monitored by a cat who has made it clear that all success belongs to him.