The Hanging Hunger: A Supernatural Horror Novel

Saint Mercy was supposed to be the safest place in the city to bring a child into the world.Then the babies started crying from the ceiling.When nurse Nora Kincaid rushes into Room Four, she finds new mother Tess Morgan bleeding on the floor, her newborn son stolen through the hospital vent by something that should not exist: a severed woman’s head trailing organs through the dark above the maternity ward. Tess dies begging Nora to find her baby and make sure he never believes his mother abandoned him.But Noah is only the beginning.As a storm traps patients and staff inside Saint Mercy, the maternity wing becomes a hunting ground. The lights fail. The vents whisper. Newborns vanish. Pregnant women hear their own babies crying from impossible places. And the thing above the ceiling is hungry enough to tear the hospital apart.Nora soon discovers that the monster stalking Saint Mercy is not a random nightmare. It is tied to an old secret buried beneath the nursery, a dead infant named Evelyn Vale, and a cover-up that has fed on mothers and babies for decades. Dr. Samuel Harker knows more than he admits. Charge nurse Gwen Talbot carries a wound that should have killed her years ago. And somewhere inside the hospital walls, the hunger is waking again.With help from Deputy Rachel Penn, maintenance worker Caleb Dorsey, and terrified survivors fighting to protect the babies in their arms, Nora must face a creature born from blood, grief, and betrayal. But saving the children means uncovering what Saint Mercy did long ago—and why the hospital has been feeding the thing ever since.Because some hungers are not buried.Some are hidden in ceilings.Some wear the voices of babies.And some hospitals know exactly what they owe.The Hanging Hunger is a brutal supernatural hospital horror novel about motherhood, sacrifice, buried secrets, and the monstrous things that happen when innocence is used as payment. Read more