Kate Seger

Alchemist of Dark Fantasy & Forbidden Magic

The Quickening Year by Kate Seger
Coming August 22, 2026

The Quickening Year

Book Two of The Hollow Crown. A living child. An old debt. And the one door Morgana chooses, at last, not to hold.

The Sweating Year β€” Kate Seger
NEW RELEASE Β· THE HOLLOW CROWN Β· BOOK ONE

The Sweating Year

Death spares Anne Boleyn, and Henry VIII's court begins to rot from the miracle outward. The doorway into The Hollow Crown — live now.

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THE DARKLING DISPATCH Β· ISSUE NO. 08 Β· JULY 2026
A living child. An old debt. And the one door she chooses not to hold.
The Quickening Year is open for preorder — Book Two of The Hollow Crown, releasing August 22nd. Plus, on the Dispatch: a deleted scene inside Thomas Cranmer's letter defending Anne Boleyn, the night he wrote it.
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NEW SERIES Β· JULY 1
Death spared a queen. The crown began to rot from the miracle outward.

The Hollow Crown

A Tudor dark-fantasy series. In 1528, the sweating sickness comes for Anne Boleyn — and Death, for reasons of her own, does not take her. What grows in the place where a death should have been is the slow unmaking of Henry VIII’s court. It begins two centuries earlier, in the plague-year prequel The Tolling Year.

The Tolling Year β€” Kate Seger

The Tolling Year

Prequel Novella Β· Free to Read

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The Sweating Year β€” Kate Seger

The Sweating Year

Book One Β· Live Now

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The Quickening Year β€” Kate Seger

The Quickening Year

Book Two Β· Preorder Β· Aug 22

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NEW SERIES
A literary historical dark fantasy duet.

The Reliquary Duet

England, 1348. The Black Death has emptied Ashenmere of carts and pigs and children. Else inherits her mother’s cottage, her cracked mortar, and a covenant she didn’t choose — sealed in bone, renewed in blood, kept for generations by women no one put in the record.

The Bone Woman β€” Kate Seger

The Bone Woman

Prequel Β· Free to Read

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Bone Covenant

Bone Covenant

Book One Β· Live Now

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Bone Sacrament

Bone Sacrament

Book Two Β· Live Now

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Some guardians are chained by grief. Some are freed by it.

The Troth

A gothic monster-romance series of bound guardians and the mortals who unmake their chains. It begins beneath the fog of Victorian London, where a manuscript conservator wakes a Thames Guardian who has been chained for forty years.

The cathedral doesn't just hold our prayers. It holds our debts.

Cathedral of the Crows

A haunting historical dark fantasy series. From the green magic of the prequel novella When the Iron Rusts, to the repressed desire of Mirror Heart and the costly choices of Gilded Blood, experience a world where ancient cathedrals record every sin and crows watch the blood return to stone.

When the Iron Rusts

When the Iron Rusts

Prequel Novella Β· Free w/ Newsletter

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Gilded Blood

Gilded Blood

Book Two Β· Live Now

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COMPLETED SERIES
A generational gothic fantasy.

The Veilkeepers

Where the boundary between life and death is as thin as a shadow. Step into a world where the dead are louder than the living, and follow the Leclair-Harrow-Ashworth bloodline through a century of ghosts, bargains, and survival.

Death Comes Knocking

Death Comes Knocking

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The Woman Who Refused Death

The Woman Who Refused Death

Prequel Novella Β· Free w/ Newsletter

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The Oathbound Line

The Oathbound Line

Novella Β· Live Now

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Death Comes Calling

Death Comes Calling

Book Two Β· Live Now

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Death Comes Quietly

Death Comes Quietly

Book Three Β· Live Now

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"The cathedral doesn't just hold our prayers; it holds our sins. In these shadows, magic isn't a giftβ€”it's a debt that must be paid in blood and silver. If you seek the light, turn back. But if you desire to touch the forbidden, step closer."

SHADOWS HAVE MEMORIES | MAGIC HAS A PRICE

THE GILDED GRIMOIRE

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"In these pages, magic isn't a gift. It's a debt that must be paid in blood and silver."

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