Second Chance Hollow

Second Chance Hollow is a quiet town with old secrets - and Lara Martinez has no idea she's just driven her grieving son straight into the center of them.After losing her husband, Lara uproots her life hoping small-town quiet will give Anderson room to breathe again. But the Hollow is not the kind of place where new arrivals go unnoticed. The townspeople watch her son with a strange, wary recognition - especially Simon Walters, whose fear runs deeper than simple suspicion.Anderson feels it too. The grass stills beneath him. Lights flicker when his emotions spike. A water glass cracks clean in half during an argument. As Gail Pyler tells him, "There's magic in you, boy. Real magic." And he's not the only one.The Hollow is home to the Circle - a hidden community of people with abilities that can heal, protect, or destroy. They've spent generations keeping their power quiet, terrified of repeating the disaster that once shattered the town's trust. Now Anderson's emerging gift threatens to expose everything they've rebuilt.As Lara learns the truth, she must navigate a world she never asked to enter, protect a son she's only just beginning to understand, and decide whether the Circle is a danger... or the family they've been missing.When Anderson's abilities spiral out of control, the town's fragile peace fractures - and the only person who can reach him is the man who once lost control himself.Second Chance Hollow is a tender, suspenseful contemporary fantasy about grief, found family, inherited fear, and the courage it takes to stop watching life from a distance and finally step into it.