The Offering
What happens to the people nobody would miss?
Peter Holler is a divorced, financially desperate private investigator with no family and no ties. When a seemingly desperate couple hires him to find their missing son—last seen during a European backpacking trip in Portugal—it feels like any other case.
The trail leads Peter to Vale Fundo, a remote village in northeastern Portugal’s Trás-os-Montes region. Forty permanent residents. One road in. Weak cell signal. The kind of place that time forgot—or chose to leave behind.
But every clue was planted. Every friendly face is part of the network. And beneath the village’s dying exterior lies an ancient hunger that requires a very specific kind of offering: someone nobody would miss.
For readers of Ari Aster’s Midsommar, Adam Nevill, Thomas Tryon
“A slow-burn descent into a trap so perfectly constructed you won’t see it close until it’s too late.”
— Early Draft Reader
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What Readers Are Saying
“Midsommar meets The Wicker Man in the Portuguese countryside. I couldn’t put it down and I couldn’t sleep after.”
ARC Reader
“A suffocating slow-burn that tightens like a noose. The final act is devastating.”
Early Reviewer
“The best folk horror I’ve read in years. Every chapter peels back another layer of dread.”
Beta Reader
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