Hollow House

Everyone in town knows the Hollow House.No one agrees on why it's called that.Some say it's because the house has stood empty for decades. Others say it's because of the strange way sound disappears near the property—birds stop singing, insects go quiet, and even footsteps seem to vanish once you cross the rusted iron gate.Payton Ellis thinks those stories are exactly that.Stories.Until Rolly runs inside.Her normally fearless Saint Bernard bolts through the broken front door after something Payton never sees. When she follows him, she discovers a house that is much larger on the inside than it should be.Hallways lead back to themselves.Doors open into rooms that weren't there minutes before.Clocks tick backward.And somewhere inside the walls, a child is whispering Payton's name.Then the front door disappears.Payton quickly realizes the Hollow House isn't abandoned.It's waiting.Every room holds a piece of someone who entered before her. Every hallway leads deeper into a history the town has worked very hard to forget.And carved into the wall beneath dozens of names is a warning:THE HOUSE DOESN'T KEEP THE DEAD.IT KEEPS THE LOST.