Sing Them Down

The dead of Dirge Hollow don't stay buried. Someone has to sing them down.

Wren Calder came to a fog-locked Appalachian town for one reason: to sell the funeral home a great-aunt she barely knew left her, and be gone before the month was out. But the fog won't let her car cross the county line while a body lies unsung. The hill above the churchyard hums after dark. And the town keeps one rule it will not bend-every soul buried in Hollow ground must be sung down within three nights, or it comes back wanting its life returned.

Not violent. Just insistent. A dead husband at the kitchen table. A boy come home for breakfast. Wrong in the way only the people who loved them can feel.

The only man who still knows the dirges is Silas Vane-the last of a family bound to the hill by a bargain older than the oldest grave, and losing his voice to it one song at a time. Wren's trained voice is the first the Hollow's dead have answered in sixty years. He needs her. She needs the truth about why her great-aunt never left this place. And every dirge they sing together costs him a little more of what he has left-and ties the two of them a little tighter.

Then a burial fails. The first in decades. Because something is waking under the churchyard-something made of every voice the hill has ever kept-and it has started to sing back. It does not want out.

It wants a voice of its own.

SING THEM DOWN is the first book in Dirge Hollow, a series of interconnected small-town gothic romances where the horror is intimate, the community is the comfort, and every love story comes with its own thing in the dark. Frightening and cozy in the same evening. A guaranteed happily-ever-after.

Readers who love this book love:

• A guarded heroine and a gentle, doomed hero (grumpy/sunshine-inverted)
• Forced proximity in a town you cannot leave
• A found family of eccentric mourners
• Slow-burn romance bound by a shared-voice magic
• Real dread wrapped in casseroles and candlelight
• Open-door heat (mild) and a hard-won HEA

For readers who like their paranormal romance atmospheric, their small towns a little cursed, and their happy endings earned.