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Root Sleep: Stonebound Book 3
Paperback
Series: The Stonebound Trilogy, Book 3
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781970425086
Publisher: Nimbus Books
Published: Jan 27 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Root Sleep is the final novel in the Stonebound Trilogy, a quiet, atmospheric horror series set in a small Midwest town shaped by grief, memory, and buried history.
In Duswood, what once stirred beneath the cedar swamp is no longer hidden. The ground hums. The town watches. What began as an unexplained disturbance has become impossible to deny, drawing neighbors, officials, and outsiders into competing stories about what lies beneath the earth. As belief spreads faster than truth, silence becomes fragile and dangerous.
For Vincent and his friends, the mystery pulls them deeper into the town's past, uncovering patterns etched into soil, infrastructure, and forgotten records. What they find is not a simple monster or curse, but an ancient force shaped by human attention and bound to something far older and more dangerous than fear alone. The deeper they listen, the more the boundary between place and person begins to blur.
At the center of it all is Mira, whose connection to the ground beneath Duswood has grown impossible to ignore. As her bond deepens, the story shifts from survival to choice, asking what it means to be heard and what it takes to let something finally rest.
Blending quiet horror, small town supernatural mystery, and emotionally grounded speculative fiction, Root Sleep explores grief that lingers, love that cannot restore what was lost, and endings that do not offer easy resolution. It is a story about listening too closely, believing too loudly, and the fragile mercy found in silence.
Perfect for readers of atmospheric horror, literary supernatural fiction, and folklore-inspired stories, Root Sleep concludes the Stonebound Trilogy with an ending that settles rather than resolves.
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