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Gray Hollow · Book Two

The Betrayal

Not every monster hides in the dark. Some sit down beside you.

Owen, Mikey, Hanna and Samantha have survived things no one in Gray Hollow would believe, and they did it together. The dark has a face this year. It's patient, it's polite, and it knows exactly what each of them wants most. Before spring, one of them will make a choice that can't be undone.

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  • Spooky '90s adventure
  • Ages 11+
  • The kids fight back
  • Free with Kindle Unlimited

Bikes, flashlights, and a town full of things nobody believes in. Four kids and one German shepherd decide to fight back.

Reading order

Start here. Read in this order.

Book One, then The Lost Tapes, then The Betrayal.

01 · Book One
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Gray Hollow · Book One

Gray Hollow

Some secrets don't stay buried.

Four sixth graders watched something terrible happen on Marsh Road. Now the sheriff is dead, the town has decided it was an accident, and the thing that did it knows exactly who was watching.

02 · The bridge book
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Gray Hollow · The bridge book

The Lost Tapes

One adventure per chapter, from the summer of '94 to the summer of '96: a stranger nobody could describe, a hurricane that dragged something up out of the marsh, and a promise they couldn't keep. Not yet.

03 · Book Two
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Gray Hollow · Book Two

The Betrayal

Not every monster hides in the dark. Some sit down beside you.

The dark has a face this year. It's patient, it's polite, and it knows exactly what each of them wants most. Before spring, one of them will make a choice that can't be undone.

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Meet the kids

They do it together. That's the rule.

  • Owen
  • Samantha
  • Mikey
  • Hanna

Four friends in a town where nothing is supposed to happen, who keep seeing the things everyone else explains away. Nobody would believe them, so they stopped waiting for grown-ups and started fighting back.

And Milo

A German shepherd who belongs to no one, and who understands far too much.

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The author

A video game, told on paper

J. J. Frank always wanted to design video games: whole worlds, monsters, maps, and the kids brave enough to explore them. The coding never quite clicked, so the ideas went onto paper instead.

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