The Blackwood Cycle

Claire Mercer thought maps were the only truth—until the ledger at Blackpine Ridge began to keep account. When a remote mountain town trades a promise recorded in ink for a strange, supernatural balance, Claire is pulled into a slow, bureaucratic hunger that steals people’s presence, one name at a time. Friends vanish. Legal safeguards become instruments. A child made of ledger and hollow keeps time. Claire must choose: obey the book’s cruel arithmetic or pay with memory, blood, and what she loves most.

The Hollow at Blackpine Ridge is a slow-burn psychological thriller wrapped in Southern Gothic atmosphere. If you like tight, sensory prose, cliffhanger chapter endings, and moral choices that feel like arithmetic, you’ll find a haunting, human story here: law versus ritual, community versus ledger, and the cost of keeping one another safe.

Inside you’ll find:

• Sustained suspense and sensory detail that build mood and dread.
• A heroine who solves by mapping people as much as places—until the map is taken.
• A supernatural premise that reads like procedural accounting: the ledger demands presence, not coin.

Perfect for listeners of: atmospheric supernatural horror, psychological thrillers, Southern Gothic, and anyone who likes morally thorny, character-driven suspense.

Listen if you dare: this novel asks what you would trade to keep your neighbors, your family, and yourself whole.

Includes chapter metadata, cliffhangers, and an ending that will leave you listening way past bedtime.

Buy now and step into a town that keeps its accounts in ink—and in the bodies of those it claims.