Shadow Hollow

Blade expected quiet trails and cold mountain air when he arrived at Shadow Hollow. Instead, the forest greets him like a living thing-breathing, listening, waiting. The trees lean too close. The shadows move with intention. And the silence feels like something holding its breath.

On their first night, Blade wakes to an old woman hanging upside‑down outside his window, her smile stretched too wide, her eyes fixed on him like she's choosing him.

By morning, the Hollow gives him something else: a girl in a crystal‑blue dress lying unconscious among the roots, as if the forest placed her there on purpose. Chrysalis is strange, soft‑spoken, and terrified of something she refuses to name. Saving her feels right. Keeping her close feels dangerous.

Because the creature hunting them doesn't stalk like an animal.
It selects.
It studies.
It hungers.

As Blade, his father, and Chrysalis try to escape the shapeshifter that wears human faces like borrowed skin, the Hollow twists around their every step-warping light, bending sound, and pulling them deeper into its dreamlike nightmare. And somewhere in that darkness, Blade and Chrysalis form a bond sharp enough to cut through fear... or lure the creature closer.

Shadow Hollow is a predatory paranormal New Adult horror about a forest that chooses its prey, a creature that never stops watching, and the dangerous connection between two strangers who were never meant to survive it.