The Hollow Hour
On the night the dying coal town of Amity Vale seals its collapsed mine forever, graveyard-shift radio host Odessa Calder takes a call from a voice that shouldn't exist — one that knows the truth about her father's death nineteen years ago. She has until the dawn detonation to decide whether to shatter her town's comforting lie live on air, or let the mountain swallow the truth for good.
Main characters
Odessa Calder
POVSharp-tongued and guarded, carries deep guilt beneath a defensive wit, desperate for truth even as she fears what it will cost
Elias Vane
Haunted and quietly desperate, morally ambiguous, speaks in careful half-truths shaped by nineteen years of hiding
Ruth Calder
Iron-willed and controlled, fiercely protective of her family's image, secretive in ways that reveal how much she has sacrificed to keep the peace