The Roots Beneath by Phil Novan

They looked to the gods in the sky, but the one who answered came from beneath.

Tomorrow is my Name Day—the day I become a woman in the eyes of the village. But the earth has other plans. It cracked open beneath my feet. And swallowed me whole.

Now I am tangled in living roots. Naked. Claimed. My body reshaped by something that doesn’t ask—it decides. Roots stroke like they know me. Feed me like I was made for them.

And somehow… I feel them inside my thoughts.

They say I’m being remade for a purpose. To be hers—The Mother below. But her love is strange. Ancient. Alien in the way only gods can be. And then she tests what I’ll do to stay human.

I don’t know what I’ll become when I leave the roots beneath. Only that it won’t be the girl I was. It will be something more. Something chosen. Something changed.

And gods help them if they think I’ll break quietly.

A dark romantasy of sensual terror, monstrous love, and one heroine’s defiant will to remain whole—where consent is reclaimed from the ruin.

Category: Horror Romance