The Hollow Will Have Us by James Lee

Description

Millbrook has survived for three hundred years because someone always pays.

Ryan Mitchell arrives in the isolated Yorkshire village of Millbrook for an eight-week placement that is supposed to save his scholarship and close a conduct case. He expects hard work, silence, and eventually a road home.

What he doesn’t expect is for the orchard to recognize him.

Beneath Millbrook lies an ancient power capable of granting strength, sight, persuasion, and more. But its gifts always come with a price. Every use demands a tithe: a smell, a voice, a memory, or sometimes something far worse.

Then Ryan becomes bound to Ethan Blackwood, the wealthy heir whose cruelty helped send him to Millbrook. Hatred turns to intimacy, and intimacy becomes something neither man can safely name. Together they possess greater power than either should have. They are also becoming increasingly difficult to separate.

As the village’s seemingly benevolent traditions reveal the machinery operating beneath them, Ryan discovers the terrible truth about Millbrook’s survival. For centuries, the community has transformed sacrifice into civic duty.

Now two blank stones are waiting in the orchard.

And Ryan already knows whose names belong on them.

The Hollow Will Have Us is an adult M/M folk-horror romantasy combining queer romance, dark academia, gothic atmosphere, supernatural power, morally complicated desire, and a haunting question: how much of yourself can you surrender before choice itself loses its meaning?

Book Details

• Title: The Hollow Will Have Us
• Series: The Millbrook Bind
• Book: 1
• Author: James Lee
• ISBN: 9798194993451
• Format: Paperback
• Genre: M/M Folk Horror / Romantasy
• Setting: Yorkshire, England
• Themes: Supernatural power, sacrifice, gothic horror, dark academia, queer romance, morally complicated relationships