The Hollow Hours

At fourteen minutes past six, Felix Durr's sedan crests the last rise above Black Point , and the morning turns from routine to ruin with the discovery of a body at the base of the lighthouse. The coastal settlement has kept its secrets for generations, bound by salt air, weathered stone, and the kind of silence that settles like fog over granite. When a stranger is found dead on the rocks below the beacon, Detective Durr arrives expecting a straightforward case. Instead, he finds a tangle of relationships stretching back decades, and a community that would rather guard its own than speak the truth. The Holbrook family sits at the heart of it all. Maren carries the weight of a legacy she never asked to inherit. Her brother Theo has spent years trying to outrun the same bloodline. Their aunt Mags knows more than she has ever let on, and old Harlan guards memories that could break everything open. Around them, Vincent and Delia Ashford play their careful long games, Mara Sutcliffe keeps her own ledger of old wounds, and Dr. Eliot Pratt, Caleb Mercer, Jo Tarrow, Winslow Meacham, Tomás Reyes, Iris Claremont, and the keeper of the lighthouse all hold their own private versions of what happened in the dark. As the investigation deepens, Felix uncovers alibis that do not hold, loyalties that cut both ways, and a choice made long ago that is still collecting its due. The longer he stays in Black Point, the more he realizes the body on the rocks was only the first secret to surface. Somewhere in the mist, the truth is waiting. The question is whether anyone , including Felix , will survive what it costs to find it.