The Vanishing Hollow
Jean BUCQUET is also a writer
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the Vanishing Hollow Paperback – October 7, 2025
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After twenty years in exile, veterinarian Emma Sinclair returns to Mariner's Hollow with her dog Bruno and cat Saphira—two souls who will teach her what it means to be wholly, fiercely alive. She returns to a village where people vanish into the forest like breath into winter air, where an ancient emptiness wears the faces of the dead and feeds on the hollow places grief carves inside us. Where her mother walked into the trees and became light.The disappearances have started again. But Emma carries a truth her mother died discovering: that animals know what humans forget—how to be present, how to love without condition, how to fill the void with something stronger than absence.With her companions as guides, Emma must help a broken community remember that wounds can become thresholds, that darkness transforms in the presence of light, and that love—real, embodied, absolutely present—persists beyond any form it takes.