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The Road That Wasn't There
Paperback
Series: The Hollow County Chronicles, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 24 2026
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some roads take you home. This one decides where you belong.
Investigative journalist Mara Vale has spent thirty years searching for the truth about her mother's disappearance. Then an unmarked envelope arrives containing a recent photograph of her mother standing beside an isolated gas station-and directions to a highway that no longer exists.
County Route 13 leads Mara into Hollow County, a region supposedly abandoned after a chemical disaster decades ago. But the town of Bellwether is still inhabited, its residents still guarding their secrets, and every household leaves a burning lantern beside the road before nightfall.
The lanterns are not meant to keep something away.
They are showing it where to go.
Trapped on roads that rearrange themselves after dark, Mara must uncover what happened to her mother before Bellwether offers her to the Mile-Walker-a creature that always appears far away, even when it is standing directly behind you.
Because beneath the county, something ancient is dreaming.
And every traveler the road consumes brings it closer to waking.
The Road That Wasn't There is the chilling first installment of The Hollow County Chronicles, a supernatural horror series of impossible towns, forgotten rituals, cosmic secrets, and monsters with rules you must never break.
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