The Seed Lady

di Jason Skidmore (Autore)

Jason Skidmore, 2026

Every town has a place people avoid without quite knowing why. When Sergei Darkholm returns to Yucaipa, he expects heat, dust, and the quiet unraveling of a place that has already begun to forget itself. Instead, he finds a town unnaturally alive. Gardens flourish in impossible soil. Water never seems to run dry. The harvest is always good. Too good. At first, the changes feel like luck—until pets start disappearing. Then people. The ground shifts where it shouldn't. Roots press through concrete. Brown seed envelopes appear on doorsteps with no return address and instructions no one remembers agreeing to follow. As Sergei digs into the town's past, he uncovers whispers of an old bargain: feed the earth, and the earth will provide. But the balance is failing. Something warps beneath the streets, vast and patient, sustained for decades by careful maintenance—and by sacrifice. When Sergei tries to break the cycle, he discovers the truth is far worse than a curse. Yucaipa wasn't infected. It was containing something. Now that it's free, the harvest is spreading. Blending psychological dread with creeping ecological horror, The Seed Lady is a slow-burn descent into a world where growth is never innocent, memory cannot be trusted, and survival may depend on feeding what should have remained buried.

• Autore: Jason Skidmore
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Jason Skidmore
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798233935008