The Hollow Sound Trilogy

The trilogy begins in Nashville, where Emma Hayes is drawn into a mystery that initially appears to be about the music industry but gradually exposes something much older and more dangerous. What begins as an investigation into a suspicious death becomes a story about missing people, buried secrets, corrupted power, and the lengths people will go to keep the past from being heard.

At the center of it all is Hollow Sound, a decades-old thread running through Nashville's music world—a history of people whose stories were erased, altered, or deliberately forgotten.

Emma's investigation brings her into the orbit of Spencer Morgan, a detective whose professional instincts repeatedly put him at odds with Emma's determination to follow a story wherever it leads. Their relationship develops gradually through the investigation, built first on mutual respect and eventually on something much deeper.

They also meet Sadie Brooks, a young woman with ambitions of becoming an investigative journalist. Sadie initially enters the story because of her connection to the case, but the investigation becomes deeply personal. By the end of the trilogy, she has lost people she loves—including Lila and her father—and the experience permanently changes the direction of her life.

And then there is Wade Mercer.

Wade is older, more experienced, and considerably less interested in explaining himself than anyone else in the group. He isn't the team's detective or journalist, but his knowledge of Nashville, its people, and its history repeatedly becomes important. Over the course of the trilogy, Wade becomes part of the group's emotional foundation.

What begins as four people connected by circumstance eventually becomes something much more important:

a family built in the aftermath of terrible things.