Hollow Pines

About This Book

The pines remember what you bury, and they will take it back.

Hollow Pines, Washington, 1962. Eleven-year-old Cass Anders steps past the marker stones after a neighbor's runaway dog and walks out of the trees an hour later looking exactly like herself. That was the trouble with it. Sixty years on, Nora Hale drives four hours from her careful life in Portland to close out her late father's estate in the dying logging town she swore she would never come back to. In his study she finds a lockbox of eleven marbled notebooks, written in a hand that grows faster and more cramped by the page. The town called it dementia. The notebooks say something else: that the forest past the marker stones takes things from the people of Hollow Pines, the memory of a happiest year, the shape of a face, and that her family's name has been written into that bargain for generations. The more Nora reads, the harder it is to leave, and the closer the tree line seems to the house. A slow-burn small-town horror novel about grief, memory and the price of forgetting, from Desmond Crow.

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