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The Hollow Series
The Hollow series is a Young Adult Dystopian series set sometime in the distant future that is heavily influenced by the Navajo and Apache Skinwalker Legends. These legends have inspired the ideas of werewolves and even possibly Dracula’s transformation into a bat. In The Hollow series I did not limit this to animal transformation. The Hollow can take on the appearance of both animals and other people too. In the original legend, one becomes a Skinwalker by killing someone close to them. I translated that to a person being soulless or hollow, thus inspiring the name of the series. In The Hollow series, a person who has committed the evilness of killing someone they love to take on certain abilities is called Hollow. The Tribe views this as a curse. In the story, long ago the Tribe was cursed because one brother killed another to become chief. The younger brother was cursed and transformed into his brother’s body so that he would forever be reminded of the deed he had done. Most of the Tribe was also cursed and bore the same fate. Generations later the name Hollow became reserved for those who committed such a murder again, while the term Blood Member referred to decedents of the Hollow who still possessed some abilities of the curse – such as taking on different forms, anticipating mood, and increased senses. Acacia, our main character, doesn’t realize that she has anything to do with the Tribe in the beginning. She wakes up in a hospital with a jumbled memory and dozens of people trying to convince her that she’s crazy. Later we learn that Acacia is not only connected to the Tribe, but she is actually much more important. 