Mourning Season

Rowan Hale is a man hollowed out by loss. A former literature professor, he fled to the isolated town of Black Hollow to let his sorrow go unnoticed. But in Black Hollow, November doesn't bring the harvest; it brings the Mourning Season. It's the time of year when the dead speak from the woods, and the living must follow ancient rituals to keep the monsters at bay.When Rowan hears the impossible sound of his daughter Ivy's laughter drifting through the decaying Victorian house he calls home, the protective numbness he's cultivated begins to crack. He came here to find peace, but the town's weary Sheriff, Tomlin Greer, warns him that the voices are a trap. Behind every glass pane, a silent, smiling figure waits for an invitation.As the rituals that have kept Black Hollow safe for generations begin to fail, Rowan must choose: succumb to the counterfeit comfort of a ghost's voice, or join a skeptic schoolteacher and a broken lawman to fight the ancient entity feeding on the town's despair. Read more