THE HOLLOW TIDE. Paranormal Fiction / Horror

Some secrets don't stay buried. They just learn to wear a familiar face. When Wren Ashcombe returns to the fog-bound fishing village of Hollow Cove for her estranged grandmother's funeral, she expects grief. What she finds instead is a locked cabinet full of journals, and proof that for over a century, something not quite human has been coming ashore, wearing the faces of the people the town loves most. Her grandmother spent fifty years quietly cataloguing who in Hollow Cove was real, and who wasn't.
Her final message points Wren toward the one person she trusts more than anyone else in the world: her childhood best friend, Sable. As the tide begins behaving in ways the charts say it shouldn't, Wren uncovers a truth far darker than any creature at the water's edge: the real story of her mother's disappearance, the village's quiet, generations-old arrangement for handling its inconvenient dead, and a bloodline that may not be entirely human at all. Atmospheric, slow-burning, and soaked in salt fog, THE HOLLOW TIDE is a haunting story about inherited silence, chosen family, and the courage it takes to finally ask the question your whole town has agreed never to ask. Ideal Reader: Fans of literary-leaning horror, atmospheric small-town fiction, and character-driven paranormal mysteries that prioritize dread and emotional depth over jump scares.