The Church Beneath the Roots

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Long before the events of </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Stolen Tongues</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>...</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On the Cold Valley Indian Reservation in the shadow of Pale Peak Onwé Lopez struggles with the past as much as the present. By day he watches his people abandon the Old Way as they flock to the local church. By night he dreams of his childhood friend Akántha who vanished from the rez decades prior. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Then catastrophe strikes: a horrific accident brings a stranger to town with stories of unfathomable death. A ghastly figure wanders the night peering into houses and terrorizing a tribal elder. Hideous whispers emanate from the nearby caves beckoning Onwé inside - and promising to return everyone he's lost. </span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>The Church Beneath the Roots</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the story of a town ravaged by memory riven by change and haunted by a sinister presence as old as the mountain itself. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Church</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> revisits the world of </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stolen Tongues</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - but instead of quietly tapping on the cabin door it bursts through and drags the reader into an abyss of torment. Blackwell has crafted a mysterious town rich with historical detail and complex characters and has unleashed his nightmares upon it.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Nick Roberts bestselling author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Exorcist's House</em></p>