The Hunger Below : Awakening
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Black Hollow has always been a quiet town-until the night four teenagers find the hole. Deep in the woods, hidden beyond the ruins of an old mine, lies a perfect, circular pit leading straight down into the earth. No bottom. No sound when they drop a rock. Just endless, consuming darkness.
Then Jackson goes down on a rope. And he never comes back.
At least... not as himself.
Now, strange whispers slither through the trees, and the town itself begins to change. People go missing. Others return wrong. As Sam, Rachel, and Liam struggle to understand what they've awakened, they realize that the thing in the hole isn't just waiting.
It's hungry.
And it wants more.
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