Category: Romance

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 29 – The taste of dirt on my tongue made me gag, pain burning my limbs as the Lost Children pinned me down again and dragged my arms so far behind my back that I was certain they’d tear them from their sockets at any moment. Hendrix looked lost to

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 28 – The pit gaped ahead of me, the roots of the thirsty oak snaring my ankles and starting to draw me into that vile hole. I would lay there rotting, perhaps alive, perhaps dead, I didn’t know. I might become one of those Cursed Ones who lingered on

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 27 – “What is this?” I demanded, stumbling away from the tree where a woman who looked all too like me was reaching out a vine-coated arm and hissing warnings at the trees. I turned to my sister, the girl I’d spent so much of my life determined to rescue,

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 26 – “Ferris!” I roared into the malevolent forest. The trees were groaning around me, vines twisting together as I slashed at them with my sword, trying to tear a path after her. But for every vine I cut, another two grew in its place, the passage forward impossible

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 25 – Day seventeen. Dusk creeps up on me each day with reckless cunning. I’m certain the trees are working together to try and lure me out into the night. When I sleep, I’m haunted by the songs of the Lost Children. I wasn’t certain what it was at first,

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 24 – “Have you changed your mind?” Ferris asked, a touch of disappointment in her voice. “No,” I grunted. I’d fallen quiet, lost to thoughts of the past as I tried to piece it into a story I could tell her without unveiling the whole truth. But I didn’t

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 23 – We found shelter a few hours from dusk, an old mill with a broken wheel which lay on its side in an over-grown stream. Once again, my diary had proved itself a useful ally, and I couldn’t help the smug grin that found me as I pointed

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 22 – I’d thought my human would wake sooner than this, but she was still unconscious. After an hour of walking with her in my arms – and fighting the forest no-handed to forge a path – my patience shattered and I tore a couple of vines from a tree

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 21 – The wind howled against the windows, the trees thrashing wildly as if dancing to the beat of a song I couldn’t hear. It was strange to stand within the cocoon of the conservatory while a storm blustered beyond it, the plants entirely unaffected by the raging maelstrom

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 20 – Fae may have healed faster than humans ever could, but this might have been one of the worst injuries I’d ever secured in all my six hundred and fifty-two years. I had never felt this incapable and the more I pushed through the pain, the dizzier I