From the acclaimed author of The Boatman's Daughter a gripping achingly atmospheric tale
about the horrors that lurk in the dark corners of family history. And a young woman striving
to break free of that tragic past. Nellie Gardner is looking for a way out of an abusive
marriage when she learns that her long-lost grandfather August Redfern has willed her his
turpentine estate. She throws everything she can think of in a bag and flees to Georgia with
her eleven-year-old son Max in tow. It turns out that the estate is a decrepit farmhouse on a
thousand acres of old pine forest but Nellie is thrilled about the chance for a fresh start
for her and Max and a chance for the happy home she never had. So it takes her a while to
notice the strange scratching in the walls the faint whispering at night how the forest is
eerily quiet. But Max sees what his mother can't: They're no safer here than they had been in
South Carolina. In fact things might even be worse. There's something wrong with Redfern Hill.
Something lurks beneath the soil ancient and hungry with the power to corrupt hearts and
destroy souls. It is the true legacy of Redfern Hill: a kingdom of grief and death to which
Nellie's own blood has granted her the key. From the author of The Boatman's Daughter The
Hollow Kind is a jaw-dropping novel about legacy and the horrors that hide in the dark corners
of family history. Andy Davidson's gorgeous Gothic fable tracing the spectacular fall of the
Redfern family will haunt you long after you turn the final page.
