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Maren Holloway writes hidden-world fantasy about the things we lose and the cost of getting them back: drowned cities still lit from within, a found family each missing a piece of themselves, magic that always has a price for whoever uses it. Her debut series, The Underloam, runs to seven books.
Maren Holloway writes hidden-world fantasy about the things we lose and the cost of getting them back. She is drawn to stories that put a marvel and a grief in the same room and refuse to let you have one without the other: drowned cities still lit from within, a found family each missing a different piece of themselves, magic that always asks the user to pay.
Her work lives in the fog between older-YA and adult fantasy: weighty enough for readers who want real stakes and real loss, hopeful enough to believe a wound can be carried instead of hidden.
Her debut series, The Underloam, follows Edda Mercer, a girl in a drowned port city who can pull the forgotten back up out of the dark, and who learns the hard way that nothing comes up for free. Across seven books it asks one question from a hundred angles: what do we choose to carry, and what does it cost to set it down?