THE PUMPKIN EATER'S PROMISE

In the crumbling mill town of Harken's Hollow, Halloween is not a holiday-it is a debt.

Every year, the children born under the blood moon must offer a single memory to the Pumpkin Eater, a gentle-voiced monster who tends the withered cornfield beyond the railway tracks. Twelve-year-old Pip Calloway has always known the town's dark secret. But when her younger brother Oliver is chosen for the harvest, she refuses to let him become another hollow shell.

Armed with an iron key, a worn notebook of missing children, and a fierce love she refuses to name, Pip walks into the Eater's domain. There, among the whispering stalks, she discovers a garden of stolen moments-and a creature more lonely than monstrous.

To save Oliver, Pip must trade pieces of herself: her mother's laugh, her most precious childhood memory, and finally, her own name. But as the field claims more of who she is, she uncovers the Eater's ancient grief-and a chance to break the harvest forever.

The price? Everything she has left.

The Pumpkin Eater's Promise is a haunting tale of memory, sacrifice, and the unbreakable bond between siblings, perfect for readers of Neil Gaiman, Erin Morgenstern, and Melissa Albert. For fans of folk horror, dark fairy tales, and heroines who refuse to give up, this lyrical and terrifying novel will linger long after the final page.

"A haunting debut that will linger like frost on a windowpane."