Moon Eyes

Black Hollow is beneath the mist-shrouded peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains-a town where shadows have teeth, and legends don't stay dead.

When grizzled history teacher Mr. Boone tells his class the Cherokee tale of the Moon-Eyed People, pale, night-dwelling creatures banished underground centuries ago, the teens scoff. But nerdy artist Ethan can't shake the feeling that something's watching him... from the dark.

Rebel Jax dares the group to find the Moon-Eyed cave. What starts as a joke turns to a nightmare: claw marks in tunnels, a blood-stained cloth, and classmates vanishing one by one. Then the howling begins. Dogs, deer, people-ripped apart, strung up like warnings.

Deep in the caves, Ethan meets Luna, a silver-haired Moon-Eyed girl with claws and scars. She warns him: "You woke them. Now they hunger." But it's too late. Her tribe, led by her merciless father Vyrn, swarms the town, tearing through flesh, scaling walls like spiders, their glowing eyes hunting in the dark.

As bodies pile up, Ethan and Luna forge a forbidden bond. But trust is fragile. Betrayal burns brighter than dynamite. When Luna's father stabs her for helping humans, Ethan must spill his own blood in an ancient ritual to stop the slaughter-or die trying.

The ground splits. Shadows scream. And Black Hollow learns: some doors, once opened, can't be closed.

DARE TO READ?

• Feel your pulse race as pale hands burst from sewer grates.
• Smell the rot in tunnels where bioluminescent fungus hides bones.
• Hear the hum of a bone flute that calls the hungry things back.
• Witness the last page... where Luna's grave moves.

In the mountains, legends don't sleep. They wait.