The Intake House (The Hollow Archive, #6)

A drought has pulled Bracken Reservoir away from the shore, exposing old roads, forgotten foundations, and a concrete intake building the county records say was demolished before the lake was ever filled. Audra Venn knows what old water systems can do when pressure shifts.

She has spent years working service calls, reading bad maps, and trusting the kind of facts that can be measured, tested, and written down.

But when black water begins running through shut-off lines, when children's belongings surface from drains, and when a voice from the pipes warns her not to open the lower valve, Audra is forced back into the one disappearance no record ever explained.

Twenty-one years ago, her father answered a district call near the restricted intake road and never came home. Now the Intake House is showing itself again.

As Audra, Hollis Dane, Ren Ortega, and the Bracken Water District uncover buried lines, altered maps, and the remains of a drowned settlement called Sallow Creek, the haunting becomes harder to separate from the system that hid it. The building is not only holding water.

It is holding names, mistakes, grief, and the official version of a tragedy that was never allowed to surface. Some places do not stay buried because they are haunted. Some stay buried because the water was meant to keep them quiet.

The Intake House is Book Six in The Hollow Archive, a psychological supernatural horror series about damaged places, buried grief, and the things that return when pressure finally breaks through.