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The Hollows

This collection of novels presents interconnected stories that delve into the supernatural and the uncanny. While each book can be enjoyed as a standalone narrative, a chronological reading order unlocks a richer, more cohesive experience. Readers are drawn into a world where the ordinary collides with the extraordinary, offering suspense and mystery.

Ink and Bone
Darkness, My Old Friend
In the Blood
Fragile
Crazy Love You

Recommended Reading Order

  1. 1

    Maggie and Jones live with their teenage son, Rick, in The Hollows, a small town outside of New York City. The cozy intimacy of the town is broken when Rick’s girlfriend, Charlene, mysteriously disappears. The investigation has Jones, the lead detective on the case, acting strangely and Rick, already a brooding teenager, becomes even more withdrawn. Maggie finds herself drawn in both as a trained psychologist and as a mother, walking a tightrope that threatens the stability of her family. Determined to uncover the truth, Maggie pursues her own leads into Charlene’s disappearance and exposes a long-buried town secret—one that could destroy everything she holds dear.

    Fragile
  2. 2

    Darkness, My Old Friend

    • 496 pages
    • 18 hours of reading
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    Set against the backdrop of a small Northeastern town, the story follows novelist Bethany Graves as she navigates life after a bitter divorce and seeks to reconnect with her daughter, Willow. Their lives take a dramatic turn when they discover a caver digging a suspicious grave in the woods, leading them into a decades-old mystery. As they delve deeper, they enlist the help of townspeople, including a semi-retired cop and a local psychic, whose ominous warnings suggest that uncovering the truth could have dangerous consequences.

    Darkness, My Old Friend
  3. 3

    The masterful psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger--"good, scary fun" (The Washington Post). Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met his match. Or has Lana met hers? When Lana's closest friend, Beck, mysteriously disappears, Lana resumes her lying ways--to friends, to the police, to herself. The police have a lot of questions for Lana when the story about her whereabouts the night Beck disappeared doesn't jibe with eyewitness accounts. Lana will do anything to hide the truth, but it might not be enough to keep her ominous secrets buried. Someone else knows about Lana's lies. And he's dying to tell. "Savor the pleasure of being guided by Unger's sure hand along a deliciously twisted narrative path" (Kirkus Reviews). Masterfully suspenseful, finely crafted, and written with a no-holds-barred raw power, this is Lisa Unger at her best.

    In the Blood
  4. 4

    Crazy Love You

    • 432 pages
    • 16 hours of reading
    3.7(23)Add rating

    Enjoying a successful career with his best friend Priss, a destructive friend who helped him escape bullies in childhood, Ian fears for his life when she becomes irrationally angry about Ian's new relationship.

    Crazy Love You
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