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The Girl Beneath the Roots
Paperback
Series: Thornwake, Book 1
Publisher: Nikola Muckajev
Published: Apr 2 2026
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
She tried to bring back a memory that should have stayed buried.
When a forbidden rite leaves a young woman marked by a living bloom of thorns beneath her ribs, grief becomes something far more dangerous than sorrow. The Thornwake is not a wound. It is a hunger-one that flowers through memory, speaks in forgotten voices, and roots itself deeper each time she reaches for the name she lost.
As Bloomkeepers close in and the ancient Grove of the Unnamed begins to stir, she is pulled into a world of failed resurrections, buried rites, and memories that do not belong to her. Beneath the Bloomlands, among stone-faced remnants of the forgotten and the living remnants of broken cycles, she must uncover what the Thornwake truly is-and what she sacrificed to awaken it.
But some names rot in the dark. Some griefs refuse to stay dead. And some wounds do not want to heal. They want to bloom.
Lyrical, gothic, and steeped in body horror, ritual, memory, and grief, The Girl Beneath the Roots is a dark fantasy novella about what happens when mourning is denied its ending-and comes back alive.
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