The Blight: Root and Bone

By Peter Kennedy

FIRE BURNED THE VILLAGE. THE PLAGUE WENT DEEPER.The hamlet of Boghennis lies in ash, torched to stop the Blight - a weaponised organism that twists flesh and root into something terrible. But flame eats only upward. It never reaches the dark beneath the earth.The Blight withdrew. It wove itself into miles of living mycelium, biding its time, gathering strength. And in the ruins, it found what the fire had left behind: Martin Morton, half-burned, dead and buried. It stitched him back together - bone, marrow, and something far older - until one side remained the gruff farmer everyone knew, while the other had become something else entirely.He returned as its scout. Walking ahead of the spread. Marking the ground where it will rise. Forced to serve the very thing that rebuilt him - while fighting, every waking moment, to remain himself.Jason Kennedy - the man who lit the fire - and scientist Elena Veyra uncover the horrifying truth: the Blight does not merely spread. It learns. It remembers. It follows heat, drains, pipes - the very paths humans laid themselves - and it is already moving toward Ballymurrin, and beyond, to the river and the open sea.As authorities delay and the ground itself begins to rise, one desperate plan remains. To strike at the heart of the plague. To poison the root. And to keep it distracted long enough for the strike to reach it.Only Martin can go that deep. Only he can walk among what it has become. And to save them, he must return to the darkness - and fight the hardest battle of all: to keep his own soul, when the earth itself wants to claim it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJ4G2CGV
• ISBN13: 9798172596773
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"