Some confessions can't be absolved. Some silences can't be survived.

Father Dominic Vael doesn't believe in demons. After twenty years as a Vatican-trained exorcist, he believes in trauma, in psychosis, and in the dangerous hunger of the faithful. His skepticism has made him enemies in the Church and cost him everything but his collar.

When he's sent to a dying Appalachian parish to evaluate a fourteen-year-old girl exhibiting what locals call manifestations, he expects to find what he always finds: a broken child exploited by true believers. But Wren Alcott knows his name before he arrives. She speaks the words of a dead priest. She knows what he did in Lisbon twenty years ago.

As Dominic's clinical certainty fractures, a darker truth surfaces. There is a bloodline of marked girls the Church has spent generations trying to erase. And at the center of it all is a question Dominic can no longer avoid.

Is the evil in this room something she carries, or something he brought with him? His mother's name appears in secret files. His past is catching up with him. And the mark he has been running from his entire life is waking up inside him.

Some souls aren't possessed. They're chosen.

For readers of Paul Tremblay's A Head Full of Ghosts and religious horror that probes the darkest corners of faith, Martyrs of the Hollow Saint is a psychological thriller that will keep you turning pages long into the night. Add to your cart now and experience the horror of truth.