Publisher's Synopsis
What The Soil Remembers
In the drought-stricken town of Wellspring, the land isn't just dying-it's awakening.
Ethan Miller has worked the same two hundred acres his family has farmed for four generations. As relentless drought transforms fertile soil into dust, he watches helplessly as his community withers alongside his crops. With his daughter Mallori returning from agricultural college to save what remains of their legacy, hope feels as scarce as rain.
When charismatic developer Lloyd Pelosi arrives with promises to transform Wellspring into a technological paradise, the desperate town divides. The offer seems like salvation: good money for worthless land. But there's something Pelosi isn't telling them-beneath Wellspring lies billions in rare minerals, and he'll do anything to control them.
As farmers reluctantly sell their land, strange phenomena begin to plague the town. Those who sold experience inexplicable health issues: chronic fatigue, increased weight, a sensation of being pulled toward the ground. Meanwhile, the few remaining holdouts like Ethan find their modest experimental crops flourishing against all odds.
When a vocal opponent of the development dies in a suspicious "accident," Ethan and Mallori uncover something beyond corporate greed. The springs that gave the town its name weren't just water sources-they were part of something ancient and aware. Now, as Pelosi's intimidation tactics escalate and electromagnetic anomalies intensify, the land itself begins to respond.
Metal objects sink into the soil. Construction equipment malfunctions. Workers disappear. And when an unprecedented storm gathers with impossible precision over Wellspring, the truth becomes undeniable: the land remembers, and it's prepared to collect its due.
"What The Soil Remembers" is an atmospheric rural thriller where environmental awakening meets supernatural justice. With echoes of Jeff VanderMeer's environmental surrealism and Stephen King's small-town terror, this tale of corporate exploitation confronting an ancient power transforms a modern tale of greed into a primal reckoning.
In Wellspring, the most valuable resource isn't what Pelosi seeks beneath the surface-it's the soil itself, with all the history, memory, and retribution it contains.
Sometimes the land doesn't just sustain us. Sometimes it judges us.
