The Lighthouse at Black Hollow

The Lighthouse at Black Hollow   The Lighthouse at Black Hollow

The storm came in without warning.One moment the sea beyond Black Hollow was silver and calm, and the next it was a heaving wall of iron-gray waves crashing against the cliffs. Wind screamed through the narrow streets, slamming shutters and rattling doors like impatient fists.Sixteen-year-old Mara Ellison stood at her bedroom window, heart pounding—not from the thunder, but from the light.It had flashed three times.Not lightning.The lighthouse.The old lighthouse had been dark for years.Perched on the jagged edge of Widow’s Point, the Black Hollow Lighthouse had been abandoned since the night Keeper Alden Rowe vanished without a trace. No one had taken the position after that. Some said he’d fallen. Others whispered the sea had claimed him for a debt long unpaid.Mara didn’t believe in sea-debts.But she knew what she saw.Three flashes. Evenly spaced. Deliberate.The pattern repeated.Her little brother, Toby, burst into her room. “Did you see it?”“Yes.” Mara grabbed her rainc