The Haunting of Sky Hollow
The Haunting of Sky Hollow
At first, inheriting Sky Hollow from an uncle they never knew feels like a dream come true for Nadia and Aidan Loveland. The remote estate offers land, money, and a musical sculpture rumored to open a portal to the spirit realm. They arrive with high hopes. But something is waiting for them. As paranormal encounters grow more terrifying and buried secrets surface, the siblings realize their inheritance comes with a cost—and has no intention of letting them go.
At first, inheriting Sky Hollow from an uncle they never knew feels like a dream come true for Nadia and Aidan Loveland. The remote estate offers land, money, and a musical sculpture rumored to open a portal to the spirit realm. They arrive with high hopes. But something is waiting for them. As paranormal encounters grow more terrifying and buried secrets surface, the siblings realize their inheritance comes with a cost—and has no intention of letting them go.
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"Noel Pratt, senior partner of Pratt, Villers & Vreeland, took a deep breath. Thirty-five years as an..."
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""Who? There must be some mistake, Mr. Pratt. I don’t have an uncle."“Oh, but you did, and he owned o..."
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"A murky dusk greeted Nadia as she left Pratt's lower-floor office, housed in a large Victorian. The..."
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"Nadia padded barefoot to the living room, a bottle of red wine in hand. An empty balloon glass sat o..."
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"A pine bough crashed on the walkway, splintering the porch railing inches from where Nadia stood.“Oh..."
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"No one spoke. Anya sat rigid, hands folded in her lap, her foot tapping an erratic rhythm against th..."
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"Twenty-five miles from Nadia's cottage on Lake St. Catherine, Noel Pratt settled into his favorite l..."
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"“Whoa! You didn’t tell me you inherited a haunted house,” said Becca, who’d taken a break from her p..."
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"Anya barreled across the bridge, ignoring Otter Creek, even though its roiling sludge lapped at the..."
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"The trip to Sky Hollow over winding, unpaved roads proved to be everything she’d expected.Everything..."
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"The narrow road inclined at a steep pitch after it left the marsh, climbing into hemlocks so close t..."
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""Easy, girlfriend." Strong arms eased Nadia into a sitting position. “Looks like you’ve taken a nast..."
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"Aidan swept the beam over the room, picking out wooden chair legs and a braided rug. As he stepped o..."
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"After she'd gone, Aidan fanned the flames with an old bellows he found in a copper urn by the firepl..."
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"Aidan made his way back to the basement. Dusty bulbs in white ceramic sockets flickered overhead. Th..."
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"A voice in the darkness jolted him awake. Aidan pushed himself up on the faded loveseat to find the..."
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"The voice raised every hair on his arms. But when he tried to speak, clods of dirt, musty and minera..."
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"“Tanith Harper, I presume?”Once she'd regained composure, Becca carried the skull to the library. He..."
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"Still shaken from the encounter, Nadia hurried upstairs to change. But neither the room’s cheery yel..."
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"“Fuck off! Don’t you have deer to chase or something?” Lee Ransom pumped the old Pathfinder’s horn a..."
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"God, he’d dreamt of this moment countless times. Now, here he was! The house at Sky Hollow: inner sa..."
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"“Thanks, but you’ve done enough.” Aidan panted, each word escaping in a filmy puff. “No, really, it’..."
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"Snow? Where the hell had all the snow come from? Just fifteen minutes ago, the bank thermometer in H..."
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"Aidan entered the house by the spiral stairs. He stood in the hallway mopping his sweaty face with t..."
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""Hey, Nadia? Becca?" Lee's unctuous voice drifted inside on a blast of cold air. "I hope you're both..."
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"Four flashlights bobbed in the darkness, their beams diffused by blowing snow. The group trudged for..."
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"Just as Aidan had hoped, the saplings nearest the house stood so close together that their canopy bl..."
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"A flash of light flickered through the trees. Lee pushed back his hat but resisted rubbing his windb..."
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"Something stirred Aidan's consciousness. A sensation so strange he mistook it for a dream at first...."
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"The ground felt soft. Warm. But that couldn't be right. The last thing she remembered was being outs..."
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"Three down, two to go.Aidan wove through the forest from sculpture to sculpture. Deep drifts, slick..."
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"The lights flickered and died. Becca held her breath, waiting for the generator's familiar rumble. W..."
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"Aidan heaved against the metal sheet with a painful grunt. Moving such weight in snow and wet, with..."
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"“Holy shit, gravity really is one heartless bitch.” Keith stopped to catch his breath.“So are these..."
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"“Keep your filthy mitts off my dog, you demonic cunt!”Becca plunged through the snowdrifts. Snatchin..."
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"The Rowan Harp was nothing like what he'd imagined.Aidan had expected something grand, something wor..."
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"After everything else, his ex-girlfriend's intrusion shouldn't have fazed him.Except she wasn't Anya..."
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"The lake roiled, rearing like a great black wall. Waves battered the shore with white-capped crests,..."
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"A mile more to go. Almost there.God, the things I do for love.The moment the cruiser turned off the..."
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"Soft blue shadows were stretching into the afternoon by the time they reached the house. Nearby, the..."
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"Two wooden statues flanked the gallery entrance."Meet our new mascots."One was a coywolf poised in m..."