Book one in the Hollow Kingdom trilogy
For centuries young women have been vanishing from Hollow Hill, and locals belive that goblins are to blame. When Kate and Emily's father dies and they are sent to live at Hollow Hill, Kate begins to get a feeling of being watched. Soon it is revealed that she isn't imagining things when Marak, the goblin King, tells her that the goblins have indeed been stealing girls, and that she is to be the next. He doesn't take her then, but when she tells her guardian and aunts no one believes her exept for her sister. She manages to remain free until Emily suddenly disappears and their guardian tells her that the goblins have taken her. She then bargains her freedom for her sister's release, but it turns out that the goblins don't have her. Who is holding Emily and what happens next will remain a mystery until you read the book. Painted against a backdrop of shadowy forests and caverns, The Hollow Kingdom is surprisingly funny and light in parts, exiting and magical in others. Wonderful, just wonderful. I loved is and consider it something anyone who likes fantasy should read.
