Some roads in East Tennessee should never be followed.

When Laurel Whitlock inherits her grandmother's old farmhouse on Black Creek Road, she expects dust, grief, and a lifetime of family secrets. What she finds instead is a locked iron box, a curse buried in her bloodline, and a dangerous man trapped beneath the house.

Bastian Rowe is not human.
He is not safe.
And he may be the only thing standing between Laurel and the darkness waking under the mountains.

For generations, Whitlock women have vanished before their thirty-first birthday. Now Laurel is twenty-nine, marked by old magic, hunted by the Hollow, and forced to uncover the truth about her mother's disappearance before the same ancient hunger comes for her.