Some neighbors are too helpful. Too friendly. Too unchanged by time.When Margaret Ashford, a small-town archivist, discovers the same face appearing in photographs spanning 129 years, she uncovers a pattern of disappearances that defies explanation. Days later, she vanishes without a trace.Detective Sarah Holder doesn’t believe in the impossible until she finds the evidence Margaret left behind. A neighbor who never ages. Missing persons reports from 1897 to present day. And one terrifying constant: a helpful stranger who befriends the lonely, the isolated, and the forgotten.Then they disappear.Thomas Merrick moved to Millbrook three years ago. He’s the ideal neighbor: friendly, considerate, and always available when you need him. He also appears, unchanged, in century-old photographs from the historical society.Sarah knows what the evidence says. She just doesn’t know what he is.When her investigation forces a confrontation, Sarah discovers something worse than a serial killer: an immortal predator who consumes souls to fill an emptiness left by death itself. He’s one of many creatures called Hollow Ones who’ve hunted in plain sight for generations, wearing time as camouflage, collecting victims like trophies, and existing in the terrible space between life and death.But immortal doesn’t mean invincible.To stop them, Sarah must understand them. To understand them, she must sacrifice something fundamental a piece of her own soul to heal a monster. The cost will leave her diminished, hollow in ways that mirror the creatures she’s hunting.And once you become hollow, coming back is almost impossible.From the fog-shrouded streets of Charleston to the rain-soaked alleys of Seattle, from historical churches to quantum laboratories, Sarah Holder hunts the unkillable. She offers them a choice other hunters never considered: restoration over destruction, healing over death.But some wounds run too deep. Some hunger can’t be satisfied. And some predators have been hollow for so long that humanity is just a distant memory.As Sarah sacrifices piece by piece to stop the Hollow Ones, she must answer one terrible question:When you give away parts of yourself to save others, what remains when the hunt is over?Genre: Mystery Horror Supernatural Thriller Dark FantasyThemes: Immortality through predation Time as camouflage The cost of heroism Trauma and transformation Whether monsters can choose to changeIn a world where the impossible is real and the dead refuse to stay dead, one detective will sacrifice everything to prove that even monsters deserve the choice to heal.But when healing costs your humanity, is it still worth the price?THE NEIGHBOR WHO NEVER AGEDby Prasanth N.M.They’ve been hiding in plain sight for centuries.Now someone knows their secret.And she won’t stop until they’re all found.”Time doesn’t heal all wounds. Sometimes it just gives predators more time to hunt.”
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$4.99The Neighbor Who Never Aged: a Chilling Mystery Horror Thriller Where One Man Never Ages, Appears in Every Missing Persons Case, and Lives Next Door to Generations Who Vanish Without a Trace.
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When archivist Margaret Ashford vanishes, Detective Sarah Holder uncovers a chilling pattern of immortality and disappearances, forcing her to confront an ancient predator hiding in plain sight.









