The Hollowing

When reclusive magnate Alistair Blackwood dies, his contested will triggers a court order to exhume secrets buried in the family's private asylum. Attorneys and heirs descend upon the decaying Thornwood Estate in Briar County, expecting a simple inheritance dispute. Instead, they uncover a generations-long pattern of silencing unwanted kin through medical incarceration and deliberate neglect. As legal investigator Marian Voss digs deeper, she realizes the true curse is not one of madness, but of inherited cruelty—and the deeper she peers into the Blackwood abyss, the more clearly she sees the shape of her own capacity for annihilation.