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The Rootless
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 19 2025
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some memories rot. Others grow teeth.
When a modern land survey team enters the heart of the Quintana Roo jungle, they believe they're mapping coordinates for a new resort. What they find instead is a place where reality peels away like old bark-and something ancient watches from the trees.
Led by Elena Voss, a pragmatic cartographer still scarred by past betrayals, the team includes a tech-obsessed drone pilot, a skeptical project manager, and a botanist whose indigenous roots make her the only one who understands what's coming. At the center of it all: the ceiba tree, sacred and sinister, marked by tiny, inhuman handprints and the smell of wet earth and blood.
As hallucinations set in and technology fails, the jungle begins to strip them of identity, memory, and reason. One by one, they're hollowed out, replaced by smiling, childlike husks. The folklore calls them Chaneques-spirits of the forest who don't just steal your belongings... they steal who you are.
A chilling blend of indigenous mythology, cosmic dread, and psychological unraveling, The Rootless is a horror novel about the cost of trespassing on sacred ground-and the quiet, insidious terror of forgetting yourself.
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