Some places don't want you to remember them.

Wren has spent her life turning other people's stories into words.

So when she returns to the remote Scottish island of Ardnoch, she expects to find answers about the father who disappeared twenty-five years ago.

Instead, the village seems to remember her.

A child tells her, 'You're early this year.'

A supposedly abandoned house smells of fresh bread.

Six damp coats hang where no one should be living.

And in an old photograph, Wren finds something impossible: her own name.

Then the singing begins.

The villagers call it the Choir. They insist it has nothing to do with worship. They say it is older than the village, older than the chapel, and necessary whenever the sea begins to retreat.

But Wren soon discovers that the island has never been telling the whole truth.

Her father's disappearance is connected to the ruined chapel.

The chapel is connected to the well.

And the well is connected to something beneath the water that has been listening for generations.

As the island enters the terrifying phenomenon known as the Long Ebb, Wren must uncover what her family has spent decades trying to keep silent.

Because on Ardnoch, silence isn't safety.

It's a debt.

And this year, something has come back to collect.

The Hollow Choir

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