If someone found their way in, they either had a reason or were about to discover one.

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Most people live comfortably blind to the world’s shadows. They dismiss the shiver down their spine, the way certain houses seem to watch, or how some names simply disappear from memory between one day and the next. But others know better: they document, they collect. They remember, even when it hurts.

Phoebe Delano runs The Hollow Market in the sleepy fictional town of Gallowsend in Maine, where coincidences are rare and secrets lurk in the corners. Clients come looking for potions, protections, or answers to questions they shouldn’t ask. Phoebe gives them what she can, even if it’s just silence.

But there’s a new arrival on the horizon, someone she doesn’t recognize, and it’s got her attention for better or worse: you.