Welcome to Heart Hollow, Pennsylvania.
In decades past, this small town’s Honeymoon Hotel & Resort was highly influential to local culture. Today, the grounds lay derelict and wild... Yet by some strange miracle, the doors remain open despite it severely struggling with money, maintenance, and mismanagement.
Even though the townspeople avoid the old Hotel like the plague these days, they keep a watchful eye as to what happens within those moody purple walls.
The neglectful Resort owner Mr. Wright employs very eclectic people; his assistant manager Lewis Lockheart is a local celebrity of sorts due to his last name, and rumor has it, he’s got himself a new assistant from outside of town.
Of course, new-hire Zeke just washes up into Heart Hollow looking to lay low, but he quickly finds himself drowning in some small town’s generational story of theatrical loss, intimate romance, and inescapable fate.
There are secrets being held within the mountainous land; to find them, Zeke must study the out-of-date design choices of the Hotel, expose his new coworkers and their kin, or listen to the outlandish wives’ tales about the local god of love Cupid.
While Zeke is deeply curious about this weird little mountain town that he’s found himself in, will he be able to uncover the whole story before he leaves again? After all, he’s keen on keeping his own secrets, and it’s dangerous to play in the heart’s fire of other people’s lives.
What’s keeping this old place open? How did the awful Mr. Wright get ownership of the Hotel, and why does everybody in town believe that the original owner simply vanished?
Why does Lewis put up with the very apparent mistreatment at work, and what is he hiding that warrants all that unwanted attention in public?
Oh, and if he wasn’t already in over his head; is it just the ethereal work of Cupid, or is Zeke actually catching a crush on his new boss Lewis?
Heart Hollow is a queer slow-burn novel series that's currently being posted chapter by chapter to AO3 and HeartHollow.net.
Book 1 is scheduled to have a Q1 or Q2 2026 release date as a physical novel.
This series features the following elements:
Situational suspense.
Town-wide mystery.
Spiritual supernaturalism.
Identity exploration.
Familial struggles.
Forgiveness.
The intended audience are those who are mature enough to read about:
Queer identities and relationships.
Substance use and abuse.
Interpersonal drama.
Trauma and anxiety.
Sex and intimacy.
Power imbalances.
A bit of crude humor.
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