Published September 2, 2026
Ebon Hollow has always kept its secrets close.
When Jeni Michaelson returns to the rituals her family taught her as a child, the old rules no longer feel like superstition. Hold the threshold. Count the beats. Never answer what calls from the other side.
Then the house begins answering back.
As an unnatural tide approaches the isolated coastal town, Jeni and those closest to her uncover generations of hidden journals, forbidden rituals, and a secret buried beneath Ebon Hollow long before any of them were born. Something imprisoned beneath the island is waking—and it has spent centuries learning the voices of the people who keep it contained.
Every answer draws them deeper into a legacy built on sacrifice. Every discovery makes it harder to know whom they can trust.
David Baldus is a Marine Corps veteran and the author of Tides of Ebon Hollow, his debut novel.
After more than sixteen years of service in the United States Marine Corps, David traded military life for a career in recruiting—but never lost his fascination with dark stories, unexplained things, and the question of what ordinary people will do when faced with something they cannot explain or escape.
His fiction blends slow-burn gothic horror, supernatural mystery, family bonds, and atmospheric settings, with an emphasis on characters who feel human even when the world around them becomes anything but.
David lives in Oklahoma with his wife and family. Tides of Ebon Hollow is his first published novel.