The Earth doesn't need saving. It needs someone who understands its pain. Dr Anna Rowlands has built her life on evidence. Rock cores. Data sets. Measured risk.
But when geothermal testing begins in a former mining village in North Wales, the ground responds in ways no model predicts. The soil warms. Cracks widen. A spiral opens in the heather where nothing should move.
Anna knows instability when she sees it. She also knows what it is to carry fractures that never fully healed.
As corporate assurances grow louder and old family truths surface, stretching from Wales to the limestone caves of Mexico, Anna begins to understand that the valley is not simply failing. It is remembering.
Some wounds are geological.
Some are carried in the body.
Some refuse to stay buried.
To protect the land, Anna may have to descend into its heart, and confront the pain that links them both.
But the Earth does not bargain.
And it does not forget.
Earth Witch is an eco-gothic novel of land, lineage and the cost of extraction.
