The Hollow - Paperback

by Nicole Barrell (Author)

Ellie Frites is twenty-four, single, and going nowhere. She spends her days rotting in a cubicle and her nights drinking herself into an emotional stupor. One day, Ellie has a jarring hallucination: an old classmate stands beaten and bloodied in the woods of their hometown. The visions persist, growing more intricate and detailed, yanking Ellie from her humdrum present and back to the unforgiving halls of sixth grade. As she digs deeper into what happened that day in the woods, she finds there is someone intent on keeping the truth buried. And soon her present-day life-and the lives of her loved ones-are in serious peril.

Author Biography

A Cape Cod native and daughter of an English teacher, Nicole works for a furniture website. She writes about the practicality of a good bar cart and the number of coils found in a luxury firm mattress. She wrote this novel, her first, over many lunch breaks.