The Understory Inquiries

Some secrets are etched deeper than memory—they are drawn in the very roots of the earth.Desmond Everett has spent his life running. A traveling preservationist, he catalogs the fading folk practices of a dying world, building a fortress of academic...

Beneath the village of Thornwich, the roots of the world grow backward into the sky.Deep below the earth lies the Understory—a vast, sentient forest of upside-down trees that emits a soft, upward-filtering amber light. For generations, the village has...