What the Hollow Keeps
A 2 a.m. phone call drags Maren Holst back to Hollow Creek, the town she swore she'd never return to, and the only place her sister Vera still lives. By the time Maren reaches the lakefront house on West Garfield, Sheriff Dale Crouch is already asking questions that won't let her sleep, and the locals she once trusted, Beatrice Soren, Jonas Pike, Cal Renfro, Hattie Voss, are circling their wagons behind a wall of silence older than Maren herself. Vera is missing. Or hiding. Or worse. The only certainty is that the hollow on the edge of town has been keeping something for a very long time, and now it has begun to give it back, one whispered confession at a time. Maren must lean on old loyalties and uneasy ones: Dr. Ellis Frazier, who knows more than she admits; Wyatt Renn, whose charm has always come with a price; and Rosie Pendleton, who owes the Holst family a debt she's never been able to repay. As Tom Beaumont, Tom Beaumont Sr., and Ruby Pike trade alibis the way other people trade recipes, Annie Holst, the youngest Holst, begins to piece together what the rest of the town has spent decades burying. Some secrets survive because no one is brave enough to ask. Maren is finally asking. But every hollow has a bottom, and what waits there may cost more than the truth was ever worth.