Hymns of Blue Hollow

Kemma MarShall

In the Appalachian hills of 1941 Tennessee, where moonshining is a way of life, Esther Primm knows the rules. Keep your head down. Survive and want nothing. Trust no one. She has lived by them her entire life. But there is one thing she has never survived. Being seen. When her world is swept away, Esther finds herself in a place she was always warned never to go. There, she finds a secluded estate and Clarissa Johnson, an older Black woman who has spent a lifetime staying on her side of the fence. And Ian Huggler, a brooding German widower carrying a grief he can't speak of, who looks at Esther in a way no one ever has. But the life Esther escaped isn't finished with her. An obsessed preacher believes she still belongs to him, hiding his darkness behind Sunday sermons, while the local sheriff watches everything and says nothing. Each of them is hiding something. And in Blue Hollows, secrets don't stay buried. They come for you.