The Hollow Places

Serendipity Sellers has built a career turning monsters into stories.

Then one of them looked back.

Twenty years ago, Ser watched her childhood best friend vanish near an abandoned farm deep in the South Carolina pines. Nikki was never found. The town moved on. Ser never really did.

Now Nikki is back.

She hasn’t aged a day.

Drawn home by a mystery no one else seems willing to face, Ser finds herself tangled in a nightmare of cult rituals, impossible survivors, and something moving at the edges of reality.

Marshal Cole wants evidence.
Ser wants answers.
The thing in the dark seems to want her.

But as bodies pile up and secrets begin clawing their way into the light, Ser uncovers a truth far worse than any monster story: the supernatural may open the door, but it is always people who choose what walks through it.

Because the real horrors are rarely the things in the shadows.

They are the ones smiling in daylight.

Blending supernatural horror, dark humor, emotional depth, and sharp character chemistry, The Hollow Places: On Monsters and the Missing is the first installment in the Serendipity Sellers Cases, a genre-bending paranormal mystery series about grief, storytelling, trauma, and the terrifying things human beings become for power.

Some disappearances make headlines.

Others barely make paperwork.

When Serendipity Sellers receives a desperate call from an old friend, she leaves New York behind and heads for the Jersey Shore, where dancers have been disappearing from a local burlesque club with alarming regularity.

No ransom notes.

No suspects.

No investigations anyone seems particularly interested in pursuing.

After all, these are women the world has already decided not to look too closely at.

But Calypso's is more than a fading nightclub filled with glitter, secrets, and broken dreams. Something is moving beneath the surface. Missing women. Smuggled artwork. Wealthy men with carefully curated reputations. And a network of exploitation hidden behind enough money and influence to make people look the other way.

As Ser digs deeper, the case pulls her into a dangerous web stretching from the Jersey coast to the galleries and penthouses of Manhattan. Alongside Detective Ruiz, her fiercely loyal friends, and an increasingly present extradimensional entity known only as the nothing man, she follows a trail that powerful people would kill to keep buried.

Because monsters are real.

They just rarely look the way we expect.

Darkly funny, emotionally sharp, and unflinching in its examination of power, indifference, and survival, Calypso's Children is the second installment in the Serendipity Sellers Cases, a genre-bending blend of paranormal mystery, crime thriller, supernatural horror, and social commentary.

For fans of The X-Files, True Detective, and stories where the greatest horrors wear human faces.

Serendipity Sellers desperately needs a vacation.

After the success of her latest book, she and her friends are spending a few quiet weeks researching America's most famous cryptids for a new project on misunderstood monsters. At the top of her list is the legendary Flatwoods Monster.

Unfortunately, murder seems to follow Ser wherever she goes.

When whispers begin pointing toward the monster, Ser recognizes the pattern immediately. People are frightened. A mystery needs an answer. And blaming a creature from an old legend is far easier than confronting the truth.

But Ser has spent enough time around monsters to know they are rarely to blame.

What begins as a single death soon uncovers a criminal enterprise built on suffering, protected by money, influence, and the assumption that nobody is paying attention.

Ser is paying attention.

Joined by her fiercely loyal friends, an increasingly less skeptical federal team, and the extradimensional entity known only as the nothing man, Ser races to uncover the real killers before another tragedy is blamed on the wrong monster.

Because the creature in the woods is innocent.

The real monsters are hiding in plain sight.

Darkly funny, emotionally sharp, and rooted in the rich folklore of Appalachia, Misunderstood Monsters is the third installment in The Hollow Places series, a genre-bending blend of paranormal mystery, crime thriller, supernatural horror, and social commentary.

For fans of The X-Files, Supernatural, and stories where the greatest horrors wear human faces.

Everybody is wearing a mask. The question is who's underneath.

Serendipity Sellers was supposed to be attending a comic convention.

Instead, she accidentally broke the internet.

When a panel discussion turns into an unexpectedly public revelation about her relationship with the extradimensional entity known only as the nothing man, Ser finds herself at the center of a media firestorm, conspiracy theories, and more attention than she has ever wanted.

As thousands of fans descend on San Diego for a weekend of costumes, fandom, and celebration, someone else is watching from behind the scenes. Someone wealthy, powerful, and obsessed with the impossible.

Everett Cain has spent his life turning anomalies into assets.

Now he has found Ser.

With a convention full of witnesses, a trio of cryptid-podcast enthusiasts determined to help their favorite new superhero, friends struggling to keep up, and the nothing man learning what it means to protect someone in a world that now knows he exists, Ser finds herself caught between curiosity and obsession, fame and surveillance, love and ownership.

Because some monsters wear masks.

And some wear suits.

Darkly funny, emotionally sharp, and packed with mystery, fandom culture, and supernatural suspense, Of Masks and Monsters is the fourth installment in The Hollow Places series.

Perfect for fans of The X-Files, Supernatural, The Dresden Files, and stories that ask what happens when the real monster isn't the thing in the dark, it's the person trying to control it.

Some things don't stay buried.

Some things don't stay whole.

For the first time since she began investigating the impossible, Serendipity Sellers isn't chasing a mystery.

She's living inside one.

After a confrontation that leaves Texas in ruins, the world has changed in ways few people understand. An ancient being has been wounded. And billionaire visionary Everett Cain has disappeared with plans that were never supposed to exist.

The official story calls it an industrial accident.

The truth is far worse.

As governments struggle to explain the unexplainable and powerful people race to seize what should never be controlled, Ser and her friends find themselves hunted from every direction. Federal agencies. Corporate interests. Shadow networks. Everyone wants the same thing.

The Nothing Man.

Or his pieces.

But what is being born carries all of the Nothing Man's curiosity...

None of his restraint.

Blending supernatural suspense, cryptid folklore, sharp humor, unforgettable characters, and emotional depth, Echoes and Ashes raises the stakes of The Hollow Places from hidden monsters to a future where humanity itself may become the greatest unknown.

Because some echoes become legends.

Others become warnings.