Ash Hollow

By J.R. Baldwin

We thought the dead wanted justice.
They only wanted the truth.
Turns out the truth doesn't set you free.
It just makes room for what comes after.

In the dying coal town of Scarbro, West Virginia, the dead have grown tired of silence.

They come not for vengeance, but for truth-whispering through frozen breath on windows, scrawling confessions in coal dust, hijacking every screen from Times Square to the smallest kitchen TV. One by one, the living are forced to speak the secrets they buried deepest: the mine roof left unreported, the unborn child flushed away, the preacher's hands on a girl too young to say no.

As suicides sweep the hollow and the mountains themselves begin to speak, seven broken souls-widow, addict, preacher, sheriff, mute child, pregnant girl, and wronged convict-are drawn to the black mouth of the abandoned Whitby Deep Mine. There, in the dark that once fed their town and swallowed their men, they must decide whether truth is worth the price the mountain demands.

But the dead are only messengers.

Something far older has awakened beneath the seams, hungry for every lie humanity has ever told. And once it tastes confession, it will not stop until the world is stripped bare-or burned clean.

Ash Hollow is a haunting tale of guilt, legacy, and the terrifying cost of finally telling the truth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G82QDK99
• ISBN13: 9798261778127
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"