Ashmoon Hollow was never meant to be kind. When Hanna Reeves inherits her grandmother’s farmhouse, she also inherits the silence that lives beneath it. The locals speak in half-phrases, the fields hum after dark, and a strange ledger waits on the kitchen table—already written in her hand. The town calls it tradition. Hanna calls it a threat. The deeper she digs, the louder the ground sings back. Under the Foundation is the first book in The Ashmoon Hollow Series—a slow-burn gothic horror about the weight of inherited secrets, and the cost of breaking an old bargain.