The hallow man

Some secrets don't stay buried.

Salem, Massachusetts, is known for its history, its legends, and the stories people tell when the sun goes down.

But seventeen-year-old Wren Callahan knows there are some stories the town refuses to tell.

Twenty-five years ago, on Halloween night, a teenage girl named Lillian Vale disappeared without a trace.

Six girls were the last people known to see her.

Today, those six girls are mothers.

And their children are best friends.

Wren has never questioned her mother's version of what happened that night-until an old photograph appears in her house.

Six teenage girls stand together outside an abandoned carnival.

Lillian is standing with them.

And written across the back are five words:

YOUR MOTHER LIED TO YOU.

Then the Hollow Man returns.

A figure wearing a cracked porcelain mask begins appearing around Salem. He watches from across the street. Leaves photographs in places no one could have entered. Knows secrets nobody should know.

And one by one, Wren and her friends become his targets.

With her best friends beside her and Cameron Hayes-the boy she's been quietly falling for-refusing to leave her side, Wren begins digging into the night Lillian disappeared.

But the deeper they go, the more they realize their mothers weren't innocent witnesses.

They were there.

They know what happened.

And whatever they did twenty-five years ago has finally come back for their children.

Because the Hollow Man isn't looking for revenge against the mothers.

He's looking for their daughters.

And Wren is about to discover why.