House of Hollow

Iris wanders the house in a daze. Though in shock, she grasps that she’s not Iris Hollow: “The dark-haired girl who’d disappeared on New Year’s Eve a decade ago was buried in a shallow grave a few meters away. Something else had come back in her place” (245).

This revelation causes Iris to question everything, telling Tyler that perhaps her father knew the truth—as he insisted his daughters were imposters. She considers Grey remembering her past and possibly seeing Gabe as a threat. Tyler pressures Iris to explain, but she doesn’t have answers. She only remembers the moment she and her sisters were found, nothing before the age of seven; she was a blank slate. Iris then asks Tyler if her sisters are the monsters from Grey’s stories.

Iris and Tyler rebury the Hollow girls. The former apologizes for their current situation, then follows her senses to Grey and Vivi. When Rosie stays put, Tyler encourages her, stating she can meet their other sisters, who’ve grown up to be an architect and a pediatrician, how one sister named her new baby Rosie after her. As Tyler pleads, Rosie touches his lips and rasps, “Let me go, Ty,” repeating this as he sobs (248).