Beneath the dry soil of Texas, something ancient is waking-and it remembers a world before humanity ever touched the land.
When seismic tremors fracture the ground beneath Briar Hollow, Rowan and Maeve descend into a labyrinth of limestone caverns where reality itself begins to break apart. Two opposing forces are at war beneath the earth: one seeks to reclaim the land's original form, while the other-the Thorned Witness-spreads like a living infection, rewriting everything it touches.
As cities above begin to distort and people fall under unnatural control, the battle below becomes a race against total collapse. The deeper Rowan and Maeve go, the more the land reveals its memory-and its fury. Possession becomes precise. The boundaries between flesh, stone, and thought dissolve. And the cost of resistance grows unbearable.
When the enemy turns someone close to them into a weapon, survival demands a choice that cannot be undone.
The War Beneath the Soil is a gothic, psychological horror novel where the earth itself is alive, reality is unstable, and love may be the only force strong enough to stand against annihilation.
But even love leaves scars.