Beneath Black Pines
Part 1 of the Hollow Veil series
Some places were never meant to be found.After a career-ending tragedy and a very public breakdown, investigative journalist Mara Quinn retreats to the remote town of Greyhollow, hoping to bury her past in silence and solitude. But Greyhollow has secrets of its own-secrets that whisper through the pine trees and echo in the dark.When a missing child is found wandering from the forest, bloodied, mute, and clutching a carved bone talisman, Mara is pulled into a chilling mystery rooted in the town's forgotten past. Locals speak in hushed tones about the Hollow Veil, an ancient thinning between worlds that opens once every generation. And it's opening again.As the forest grows restless and shadows lengthen, Mara must confront not only the horror rising from the woods-but the darkness she's carried with her all along.In Greyhollow, what you bury doesn't stay dead.