The Hollow Beneath

A dying hospital hides an ancient hunger beneath its foundation, and the night staff are the only ones left to hear it waking up. When Nurse Yolanda Ortiz finally tracks down the source of the six-day flicker above bay seven, she finds something far worse than a faulty tube , a crack in the basement floor that breathes. As the building settles into its nightly hush, patients begin whispering to the walls in languages no one alive speaks, a priest hears confessions that chill his blood, and a smiling woman appears in corridors that lead nowhere. With Dr. Henrik Vossen insisting nothing is wrong, and Detective Roy Castellano chasing answers the department wants buried, Yolanda must uncover what is feeding beneath the floors before it finishes consuming everyone above them. Every clue pulls her deeper , toward Mrs. Petrov, whose charts are being altered in her sleep; toward Father Amaru Diallo, whose faith has never prepared him for what's clawing its way up through the concrete; toward Babcia Halina, the only one who knows the old name for what lives down there. Reza Maliki and the Men in Suits are watching. The Smiling Woman is waiting. And in the end, Yolanda will have to choose whether to seal the hollow forever , or listen to what it wants to say.