Hemlock Hollow

By Somchai Yun

Eli Vance has spent his entire career making fear controllable—until he walks into a haunted maze and meets the one force his soundboard can't contain.

Sound engineer Eli Vance lives by one rule: if you can't measure it, it doesn't matter. Frequencies, decibels, cause and effect—these are the things he trusts. So when he accepts a contract at Hemlock Hollow, a rural haunted corn maze with a season opening in three days, he expects wiring disasters and difficult clients. What he doesn't expect is a maze that flickers, whispers, and refuses to behave like anything his equipment manuals prepared him for.

Then Liam Cole crashes through the control room door—scare director, self-declared method actor, and walking contradiction. Magnetic, maddening, and utterly convinced the maze is genuinely haunted, Liam challenges Eli's every instinct. Their working dynamic ignites instantly: Liam calls it art, Eli calls it physics, and neither man can stop arguing long enough to admit the other might be right. Or irresistible.

When the oldest section of Hemlock Hollow begins behaving in ways that defy every rational explanation—symbols carved by invisible hands, voices registering on no microphone, a hidden chamber containing sixty years of desperate offerings—Eli and Liam are forced to investigate together. What they uncover isn't a haunting. It's an ancient partnership between the living and the dead, fracturing at its foundation. And someone is actively destroying it.

Eli built his entire identity on certainty. Liam lives for wonder. Somewhere between the flickering lights and the whispered warnings, something shifts between them—something neither man can measure or perform away. But saving the maze may require surrendering the very walls they've spent years hiding behind.

A forced-proximity, enemies-to-lovers paranormal MM romance featuring haunted corn mazes, reluctant believers, and the terrifying magic of falling for someone who sees exactly what you're running from.