The Hollow Season
Maren Holloway has spent six weeks trying to sleep through the night when a telephone call at 4:11 a.m. drags her back to the flood-ravaged hometown she tried to leave behind. What the river took, it is not finished keeping. When a body surfaces and a hooded figure begins stalking the streets, Maren finds herself unwillingly allied with Cora Brake, whose quiet brother Otis knows more than he dares say. Sheriff Dory Pennebaker is stretched thin, the cryptic journalist Simeon Quill is asking dangerous questions, and a whisper network called The Lattice trades in secrets that have already cost lives. A dead man's letter, a vanished nephew, and the name Halden Voss keep surfacing in places they shouldn't, pulling Maren toward a reclusive figure named Pernell Fyffe, a man some call the Architect of the town's quiet misery. As the water recedes, what rises in its place is uglier, and someone is making sure it stays buried. With allies who may be informants and a masked pursuer closing in, Maren must choose whether to dig until the truth breaks her or walk away before the Hollow Season claims another.