Hollowed Service (Echo Series Book 3)

Some curses aren’t inherited.They’re enforced.When Joseph and Maria Duncan return to the old farmhouse on Center Street in Chatham, New York, they expect grief, not war. Their marriage is fraying, their sleep is haunted, and voices follow them through the house—pleading, accusing, whispering names that should be long dead.At first, it feels like a familiar haunting.It isn’t.As Joseph’s sanity begins to erode and an ancient nightmare creature presses down on his chest in the dark, the Duncans uncover a truth buried far deeper than the walls of the house—or the tragedy of a cursed clock once thought responsible for their suffering.The origin lies centuries earlier.In 1710, Palatine refugee Hans Dunkel arrives in the New World with his family, fleeing war, starvation, and betrayal. Promised land and freedom, he instead finds suffering, stolen identity, and desperation. One night, in the forests of colonial New York, Hans prays for help.Something answers.That unanswered plea—spoken in hunger and silence—creates a breach that echoes forward through generations. A bloodline is marked. A nightmare is chained. And forces far older than the house on Center Street begin to move.Now, as supernatural abductions surge across the country and the veil between worlds thins, Joseph and Maria learn they are not just victims of a haunting—but leverage in a much larger conflict. An ancient deceiver seeks to break them through madness, grief, and the most effective weapon of all: doubt between those who love each other.To survive, they must confront the truth of their inheritance, free a creature enslaved to their bloodline, and do what their ancestor never could—say no.Hollowed Service is a dark, emotionally driven supernatural horror novel weaving historical dread with modern terror, expanding the Echo Series mythos introduced in Echoes in the Glass and The Current Beyond. It explores grief, consent, generational trauma, and the terrifying cost of silence—where the real danger isn’t what hunts you in the dark, but what’s been waiting for permission all along. Read more