||A HOLLOW PRAYER||

"The only thing crueler than a god who does not answer is one who does."

Vera Windsor was born into a life of prayer and punishment.

In their isolated countryside home, Vera learns that faith is hunger, that devotion is pain, and that questioning is a sin worse than death. But when doubt creeps in-when the prayers begin to feel hollow and their clasped hands sore-Vera realizes they may never leave this life alive.

Until one night, they venture too far and find something far worse than their mother's sermons. Something real. Something waiting.

Now bound to a god that revels in cruelty, Vera will come to understand the truth: there is no salvation, only survival. And some faiths are built on blood.