Sign-In
Cart
The Thorn That Dreams: When flowers sleep too long, they bleed
Paperback
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 27 2025
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the flowers finally bloom, they do not bring life; they bleed.
For generations, a nameless village has lived in the shadow of an ancient thicket, its thorned roots feeding not on soil or water, but on dreams. Each night, villagers wake with wounds their slumber carved, as visions turn from longing to terror. No prayer silences it. No fire burns it. No escape is ever found.
Seventeen-year-old Elara has always doubted the whispered rules of survival until the thorn marks her. A bloom begins to grow beneath her skin, binding her fate to the monstrous root that claims both memory and blood. Branded as the Bride of Roots by her own people, Elara faces a harrowing choice: surrender to the thorn's promise of peace, or defy it and risk carrying the curse into the world beyond.
But dreams do not sleep easily, and what stirs in the heart of the thorn is older than gods, older than grief, and older than humanity's first story.
Lyrical, haunting, and drenched in folkloric terror, The Thorn That Dreams is a mythical horror-fantasy about sacrifice, love, and the endless battlefield between nightmare and hope.
When flowers sleep too long, they bleed. When one girl wakes, she must decide who will bleed in her place.
Also from
N. M., Prasanth
American Cold Case (Book One): The Murder Everyone Remembers. The Secret Nobody Told.
N. M., Prasanth
Paperback
The Forgotten Victims (Book Two): Twelve Murders. Twelve States. One Name Missing From Every File.
N. M., Prasanth
Paperback
The Missing Chapter: Every victim appears in the book. One name has been erased.
N. M., Prasanth
Paperback
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Agee, Joel
Musil, Robert
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paperback