Hollowmere - Part 3

Hollowmere: What the Mist Keeps (Part Three)

For two hundred years, Gideon Ashworth has kept Hollowmere's peace the only way he knows how — quietly, patiently, and at a cost no one in the valley ever thought to ask about. He has watched over the town from the shadow of his manor, loved a woman from behind a shop counter without ever finding the courage to say so, and shepherded a restless young companion through ninety years of hunger he never quite learned to master.

One autumn night, all of it comes due at once.

A stranger with a scar and a reason not to trust arrangements like this one. A jealous confession spoken in a tavern that can't be unspoken. A dance, a dare, and two hundred years of careful restraint finally running out of road. By the time the fog rolls back off the tree line, Hollowmere will have buried more than it bargained for — and the ones left standing will spend the rest of their lives working out what, exactly, the peace was worth.

Atmospheric, aching, and quietly devastating, What the Mist Keeps closes out the Hollowmere trilogy with old grief, new blood, and a valley that never quite tells anyone what it costs to be kept safe.