The Saint of Heart Hollow
The Saint of Heart Hollow
A dark Southern Gothic romantic fantasy about a woman who returns home for a funeral—and uncovers the living saint her family has been feeding on for a century.
Rowan Vess left Heart Hollow years ago with a sharp mind, a colder heart, and no intention of ever returning to the mountain town that raised her on secrets.
But when her powerful uncle dies, Rowan comes home for the funeral and finds more than grief waiting in the fog. The old church candles bend toward Saint Mercy’s portrait. Her aunt Delia guards the family legacy like a weapon. A dying voicemail warns that “the bill is due.” And in the ledgers hidden inside the Vess estate, Rowan discovers a horrifying pattern of money, miracles, and blood.
Saint Mercy did not vanish in 1923.
She is alive.
And Rowan’s family has kept her imprisoned for generations.
To reach the monastery hidden in the Appalachian mountains, Rowan must turn to Jack Corvin, the quiet local guide she nearly loved as a teenager—and the one man tied to the night she has spent half her life trying not to remember. Their attraction is unfinished. Their trust is broken. And the mountain between them is full of patrols, old vows, buried guilt, and a rogue from their past who has been waiting for the Saint’s power to break loose.
As Rowan and Jack fight to free Mercy, Heart Hollow begins to unravel. Radios hiss with dead voices. Old sins broadcast through the town. The Vess family’s empire cracks open. And Rowan must decide whether to destroy the curse her bloodline built—even if doing so costs her the name, the man, and the power she never asked to inherit.
The Saint of Heart Hollow is a dark romantic fantasy thriller with Southern Gothic atmosphere, slow-burn heat, dangerous family secrets, mountain dread, inherited sin, and bittersweet hope.
Perfect For Readers Who Love
Dark romantic fantasy
Southern Gothic mysteries
Small towns with corrupt old families
Haunted Appalachian atmosphere
Slow-burn second-chance romance
Morally gray family legacies
Ancient saints, cursed bloodlines, and buried crimes
Romance tangled with danger, guilt, and redemption
