The Hollow Beneath Willow Creek

When Eleanor Vance receives word that her estranged grandmother has died and left her a crumbling farmhouse in Willow Creek, Vermont, she expects closure, not a haunting. The house remembers her bloodline. Creaking floorboards whisper warnings in her grandmother's voice. A faceless figure stalks the upstairs hallway, and something beneath the floorboards has been listening for generations. Alongside the suspicious Harlan Croft and the quietly knowing Maren Halloway, with the watchful neighbor Doris Pettigrew offering warnings no one else will heed, Eleanor begins to unravel the farmhouse's grim history. She finds her mother's ghost bound to the parlor, her grandmother's ghost trapped in the attic, and their bodies interred somewhere the townsfolk refuse to name. The deeper Eleanor digs, the clearer the truth becomes: the inheritance was never a gift. It was a summoning. The Listener beneath the house has been waiting for a Vance to return, and now Owen Marsh's body, hidden for decades in the hollow, demands to be found. Eleanor can flee back to her old life and let the dead keep their secrets, or she can descend into the hollow, confront the rot her family buried, and choose whether the cycle ends with her.