The Hollowing

On Halloween night, five friends step past the rusted gates of Blackthorn Cemetery. By sunrise, none of them are the same.What begins as a harmless dare becomes a plunge into an underground world carved from fog, stone, and shifting memory - a place that bends around fear and listens for the sound of a breaking voice. Beneath the cemetery lies a labyrinth that shouldn't exist, a maze that reshapes itself with every heartbeat... and it knows Aspen Birch better than she knows herself.As the tunnels twist tighter around them, Aspen starts to sense a pattern in the spirals etched into the walls. A ritual. A purpose. A reason she was drawn here. Something in the dark wants her to become someone she doesn't recognize - someone she's terrified she already is.To escape, Aspen must confront the truth she's buried for years and the version of herself waiting in the depths. Because some places don't just trap you.They remake you.The Hollowing is a haunting, slow-burn psychological thriller about identity, fear, and the dangerous power of the stories we tell ourselves in the dark.

Pages: 157, Paperback, Independently published