The Hollowing Returns

They survived the Hollowing once. They won't escape it twice.Months after Aspen and her friends destroyed the darkness beneath Blackthorn Cemetery, life is finally settling into something like normal. The fog is gone. The spirals have faded. The nightmares are quiet.Until the signs return.Whispers in empty rooms. Shadows that move on their own. Fog curling at the cemetery gates. And Aspen's spirals - long dormant - begin to burn beneath her skin again.Something survived. Something older. Something that remembers her.When a new force rises from the Hollowing's ruins, stronger and more vengeful than before, Aspen and her friends are dragged back into a world they swore they'd never face again. But this time, the darkness isn't trying to consume her.It's trying to claim her.And if Aspen can't stop it, the Hollowing won't just return - it will take everything she loves.