Rebecca Calder is trying to rebuild her life after the death of her estranged husband when an unexpected inheritance offers her and her fourteen-year-old son, Sam, a fresh start.The house in Ashcreek Hollow comes with eleven acres, generations of family history-and one strange condition.The well behind the house must never be opened.At first, Rebecca dismisses the warning as the final eccentricity of a distant aunt. Then the house begins to change. Two knocks sound in the night. A portrait seems to be watching them. A nameless boy appears at the edge of the trees. And something outside Rebecca's bedroom begins speaking in the voice of her dead husband.As Rebecca searches for answers, she uncovers a secret buried for more than two centuries. Her family belongs to a long line of keepers tasked with containing an ancient presence bound beneath the land-something that knows how to wear familiar faces, collect names, uncover private fears, and turn grief into a weapon.But Rebecca soon discovers that the truth is more complicated than good versus evil.The thing beneath the well is dangerous, intelligent, and terribly lonely.When old bargains begin to fail and other keepers emerge with secrets of their own, Rebecca must decide whether generations of fear have protected the world-or created something even more dangerous. With Sam caught in the middle and a hidden enemy working to reunite forces that were never meant to become whole again, Rebecca faces an impossible choice between repeating the past and risking everything on a new kind of bond.Dark, atmospheric, emotional, and haunting, The Hollowing is a supernatural horror novel about grief, inherited secrets, motherhood, trust, loneliness, and the terrifying consequences of being truly known.
