{"product_id":"the-hollow-season-philip-stengel-9798251312874","title":"The Hollow Season","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eBell Hollow\u003c\/b\u003e, the annual \u003cb\u003eHollow Season Festival\u003c\/b\u003e sells hayrides, lanterns, cider, and the safe version of fear. But the town's favorite attraction, the corn maze, is built over an older lie. In 1998, eleven-year-old \u003cb\u003eCal Wren\u003c\/b\u003e vanished the night the maze burned, and Bell Hollow turned panic into a public story, a memorial stone, and a grief ritual neat enough to bury the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow \u003cb\u003eRowan Vale\u003c\/b\u003e is back. Her father is dead, the family house is hers, and someone has left a burned child's toy on her porch with a note that says: \u003cb\u003eASK HIM WHERE THEY TOOK THE BOY.\u003c\/b\u003e As Rowan digs through old festival maps, storage-unit files, taped interviews, and a town that has spent decades practicing selective memory, she discovers Bell Hollow did not survive on silence alone. It survived on procedure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a missing-boy mystery turns into something colder and more systemic: a long-running network of protected men, managed witnesses, buried routes, and a town that treated children who knew too much as problems to be tracked. \u003cb\u003eThe Hollow Season\u003c\/b\u003e is small-town horror built from institutional rot, inherited silence, and the moment a community loses its favorite defense, ambiguity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Stengel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798251312874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d","brand":"Philip Stengel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665425895679,"sku":"9798251312874","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6d8f3023-92a7-47cf-a297-7680414141a0.jpg?v=1792011906","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-hollow-season-philip-stengel-9798251312874","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}