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The Harvest of Lights: A Lanterns of Hollow Hills Book
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 6 2026
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The same milepost might appear three times. A path may bend into a forest that was not there a moment ago. Shadows stretch toward things no one can see, and the bells ring when the roads begin to change.
Here, you do not follow the brightest light.
You follow the right lantern.
For generations, the village has survived beneath hundreds of glowing lamps. House lanterns light the steep streets. Memorial lanterns preserve traces of those who are gone: a familiar scent, a forgotten voice, the warmth of a moment that should have died with its owner. Road lanterns burn with amber flames that lean toward safe passage, coaxing the Hollow Wood to remember where a traveler belongs.
But not every lantern wants to guide you home.
Some burn a thin, unnatural white. Some draw the roads into impossible loops. And sometimes, a flame points toward someone rather than somewhere.
Five years ago, Elias disappeared into the Hollow Wood at thirteen.
Search parties returned with empty lanterns, and Lila Marlowe spent five years mourning the friend the road refused to return.
Now Elias has walked out of the trees.
He remembers Lila's name. He remembers things they once did together. But the joy and affection that made those moments his own are missing, as though someone has carefully scraped the feeling out and left the facts behind.
And every lantern in Hollow Hill turns its flame toward him.
Lila, a seventeen-year-old apprentice lantern-maker, knows glass, brass, and fire better than she knows the secrets her grandmother keeps. When an old memorial lamp shows her a memory that belongs to Elias, she begins to suspect his lost years have not vanished at all.
They have been stored.
As Harvest Night approaches, Lila and Elias follow a hidden trail through roads that double back on themselves, past false lights that can lead them away from the world they know, and toward records that were never meant to be found.
The village blames the Wood for its disappearances. But the Wood has its own hungers, and the people who claim to protect Hollow Hill may be hiding something worse.
Beyond the last warm lanterns, faceless shapes wait in the trees. They can steal a name, a memory, the very certainty that your next moment belongs to you.
And the boundary keeping them out is beginning to fail.
To save Elias and the town that raised her, Lila must discover what the Harvest truly takes, why its lanterns are changing, and whether the one flawed light she has made can show them another way.
Because in Hollow Hill, light can guide you.
It can remember you.
It can also be used to steal everything that makes you who you are.
THE HARVEST OF LIGHTS is an atmospheric Gothic dark-fantasy mystery of shifting forest roads, haunted lantern craft, stolen memories, old village secrets, and a tender, slow-burning bond tested by the years one person can no longer remember.
A complete, haunting story in the world of The Lanterns of Hollow Hill, with an unsettling mystery beyond the Wood waiting at the edge of its light.
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