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Synopsis

Have you ever been afraid of the dark — really afraid, the kind that makes you check behind you twice? Have you ever wondered what happens when a game refuses to let you stop playing? What if the dice you rolled once weren't really dice at all — and the "game" you started could trap you somewhere between the world you know and a place that was never meant to hold the living?

Step inside and find out. This is The Hollow Game.

The night before the Morrow Mansion is demolished, four teenagers slip inside to steal a set of forgotten blueprints — and find something the house was never supposed to give up.

Maya Chen just wants to survive the wreckage of her family — a mother who vanished without a word, a brother who gave up his future to hold the pieces together. Daniel is that brother, quietly furious and exhausted from staying. Priya documents everything because understanding is the only kind of safety she trusts. And Ezra — fourteen, anxious, and used to being the kid nobody waits for — has read just enough forum threads about "adaptive board games" to know they shouldn't be touching this one.

Then the dice slip.

The board lights up. A door opens where no door should be. And the four of them wake up in The Hollow — a frozen, breathless mirror of their hometown, thirty-three years out of sync with the world they know, where a dying orange sun never quite sets and shadow-creatures called Shades hunt anything that smells like despair.

They're not the first ones trapped here.

Verena Cross was eight years old when she rolled these same dice. She's been surviving The Hollow alone for over three decades — mapping its ruins, learning its rules, waiting for a door that might finally let her go. Now, with four strangers and a game that demands a truth, a sacrifice, or a piece of themselves before it will move forward, she has her best chance yet.

But the board keeps score. Every card asks for something real — a secret nobody's spoken aloud, a memory someone's been afraid to let go of, a fear faced completely alone in the dark. And somewhere beneath it all waits a blank white card that every account of this game mentions once — and never mentions again.

They have one night. The Fade is closing in behind them, erasing The Hollow one street at a time. Ahead of them: the center of the board, a door made of light, and a choice that will cost at least one of them everything they thought they wanted.

So — are you brave enough to play?

THE HOLLOW GAME is a fast-moving YA adventure about the games we play to survive grief, the doors we're afraid to walk through, and the found family that shows up right when you need it most — even if it takes a haunted mansion and a cursed board game to bring you together.

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