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The Roots of Midnight
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 5 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Salem, 1692. A village ruled by fear, where a single whisper can end a life. When Elias Thorne arrives at twilight-ageless, beautiful, and unsettlingly calm-the God-fearing townsfolk sense a darkness in him they cannot name. They're right to be afraid. Elias is no ordinary traveler. He sleeps beneath the earth, cradled in the roots of the Midnight Tree, rising only when the sun retreats.
Nathaniel Hale, the quiet and brilliant son of Salem's most fanatical reverend, is drawn to Elias in ways he cannot explain. Their chance meeting in the woods sparks a forbidden connection-one that threatens Nathaniel's rigid faith and Elias's centuries of solitude. But in a town already burning with suspicion, desire becomes dangerous.
When a ritual feeding in the forest exposes Elias's true nature, Salem erupts into righteous fury. Reverend Hale declares a holy hunt, and the village becomes a furnace of judgment. Forced to flee through the dark pines, Elias and Nathaniel must choose each other over the world that condemned them.
As the old life burns behind them, a new covenant takes root-one bound by blood, hunger, and a love that refuses to die.
The Roots of Midnight is a gothic tale of forbidden desire, supernatural rebirth, and the terrifying cost of freedom in a world ruled by fear.
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