Echoes of the Past: A Shards of Shadows Novel - Book One

Magic exists beneath Nashville. Most people will never see it. Echo has spent his life surviving in the forgotten spaces of the city - tunnels, abandoned places, and shadows where ordinary rules don't quite apply. His magic is small compared to the powerful practitioners who shape the hidden world around him, but it's enough to keep him alive. Most of the time. When a job goes wrong, Echo wakes injured and disoriented, with fragments of memory and a voice echoing through his mind - urgent, desperate, and impossible to place. Someone was calling for help. He doesn't know who. The deeper he digs, the more he realizes the job he thought he understood has uncovered something far older than a magical dispute. Beneath the fragile alliances that keep Nashville's secret society stable, old rivalries and buried histories are surfacing - and some secrets were never meant to be remembered. About this book Echoes of the Past is Book One of Shards of Shadows, a planned ten-book urban fantasy series set in the American South. It is a full-length novel of about 75,000 words, set in present-day Nashville, Tennessee. Book Two moves the story to Memphis. Perfect for readers who love: A city underneath the city: tunnels, abandoned places, a society hiding in plain sight A mystery where the hero's own past is the biggest unknown Found family, shifting loyalties, and a mentor with secrets of his own A male lead and a secret magical organization, with no romance plot For fans of: Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, Benedict Jacka's Alex Verus, Steve Higgs's Realm of False Gods, Craig Schaefer, Shayne Silvers, and Neverwhere - a hidden city under the real one. Reading order: Book 0: The Heist Book 1: Echoes of the Past (this book) Book 2: Fragments of Dominion (late 2026) Content: violence and gunfire, occasional mild profanity, no explicit content, no demonic content. Written by a Tennessean. Later books move to other Southern cities, starting with Memphis.