Songs for the Unquiet Dead

Three siblings. Three hauntings. One world where the dead refuse to stay silent.

When their father becomes the U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, Jack, Maggie, and Marc Callahan expect a new country, new schools, and a chance to rebuild their lives after the loss of their mother.

Instead, Jack begins seeing the dead.

A murdered woman in the sugarcane fields of the Philippines draws the siblings into the terrifying legend of the manananggal.

In Japan, a sorrowful yūrei and a vengeful onryō lead them into a mystery buried for decades.

And during a Christmas retreat in the snowbound mountains of Colorado, the Callahan family encounters something far older—an entity that steals voices, wears familiar faces, and feeds on grief, guilt, and abandonment.

Jack can see what others cannot.
Maggie refuses to run from anything.
Marc believes even the impossible leaves evidence.

Together, they begin to understand that not every spirit is a monster.

Some must be fought.
Some must be understood.
And some have simply been waiting for someone to remember their names.

But every time the veil between the living and the dead tears open, something is waiting on the other side.

The Heirs of the Hollow: Book One is a supernatural mystery and horror adventure blending international folklore, family, grief, friendship, and the terrifying places where the world of the living grows thin.