BAYOU RELIQUARY: Book 2 of The Hollow

I fix things for a living. Engines, mostly. The kind of broken a man can
put his hands on. Then she poled up to my dock with a job the Hollow
swore was mine to take, and I learned there is a kind of broken you do not
repair. You only decide whether to drown beside it.

Cy Mercer is the best hands on the water and the last honest sign on the
bayou, a mechanic who charges for the part and loses the labor in the math.
Nobody who brings him a dead motor knows the other trade, the one the
Hollow made him for, the one he has spent ten years trying to forget.

Sabine recovers what the powerful cannot afford to have found. She goes
down into flooded vaults and sunk boats and other people’s worst nights,
and she comes up alone, because thirty years ago she learned in forty feet
of black water that there is only ever one rope. She has never once needed
a partner. She has certainly never needed a warm man who fixes things.

The Hollow chains them to the same recovery, one job, one reliquary the
water was never meant to give back. He is supposed to keep her alive. She
is supposed to keep him useful. Neither of them planned on the wanting,
and in the Hollow the wanting is the one debt no ledger forgives.

BAYOU RELIQUARY is a full-length Southern Gothic dark romance, the
second standalone-couple novel in THE HOLLOW. Slow burn, open door, and a
heroine who did the worst thing and did not flinch. For readers of Shantel
Tessier and Leigh Rivers who want their obsession set on black water.

Content notes available on the author’s website. This book contains
adult content and dark themes.