The Hollow Mile (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798275475609)

When investigative journalist Evan Mercer travels into the abandoned town of Brightwater, he expects to uncover a forgotten tragedy.
He does not expect to wake something older than civilization-
a living intelligence buried beneath the earth for thousands of years.

Brightwater's residents didn't disappear.
They were devoured.
Absorbed.
Transformed.

And now the Origin, the colossal mind beneath the desert, has found the one thing it has sought for generations:
someone who can hear it.

Evan's entire life-his nightmares, his mother's madness, every strange whisper he ever thought was his imagination-was preparing him for this moment. The Origin chooses him as its conduit. Its future. Its bridge to the surface.

But the more Evan fights, the more the Origin spreads, twisting bodies, towns, even the desert itself into a living network of eyes and mouths. Its influence infects those around him-
including Clara, the only person who stood beside him in the darkness.

As the world beneath the desert awakens, Evan is forced into a psychic war against the oldest organism on Earth...
a war fought through memory, fear, identity-and the last fragile pieces of his humanity.

Because the truth is simple.
And terrifying:

The Origin didn't rise for destruction.
It rose for him.

And now it's everywhere.

Inside the earth.
Inside the people he loves.
Inside him.

To save anyone-to save himself-Evan must confront what the Origin implanted deep in his mind... before the world above is swallowed as Brightwater was.

Terrifying, atmospheric, and relentless, The Hollow Mile is a descent into madness, evolution, and ancient intelligence-perfect for fans of cosmic horror, psychological horror, and stories where survival is far from guaranteed.