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Some debts are paid in full. Others simply wait.
When Maren Cole inherits her late grandfather's failing pumpkin farm, she expects a quick sale and a quiet goodbye to a town her mother fled thirty-five years ago and never once looked back on. What she finds instead is a farm thriving in soil that should be dead, a welcome too warm to trust, and scarecrows that all face the house — and weren't turned that way when she arrived.
Hollowell is generous. Hollowell is kind. And Hollowell has been keeping a secret for two hundred years: a bargain struck in its founding autumn, paid every Halloween since in the coin of a single life, freely given and never questioned aloud. The crops never fail. The town never starves. And beneath the vines, in soil gone black and warm and patient, something has been counting.
Now the ledger has come due, the debt has fallen to the last Cole standing, and the whole town is smiling as it closes in.
Some things are planted. Some things are fed. And some things, once you understand what they're truly owed, do not let go simply because you finally learn their name.
The harvest is waiting. Will you make it out alive?
