Deep roots

Pages: 352
Published: 2018
Language: English

Aphra Marsh, a survivor of Deep One internment camps, has made peace with the government that destroyed her home. Now, she embarks on a personal quest to locate her long-lost family members. However, her search reveals a disturbing pattern: many people have simply vanished, hinting at a deeper, more sinister mystery.

Prose complexity: 7/10

Dark Mysterious Tense

Survival Quest

Cosmic Horror Fantasy Historical Fiction Horror

Ruthanna Emrys

Ruthanna Emrys was born and raised on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, studied cognitive science at Hampshire College, and earned a PhD in cognitive psychology at Stony Brook University; she now lives in the Chesapeake Bay watershed outside Washington, DC. She writes science fiction and fantasy for Strange Horizons, Analog, and Tor.com, and is best known for the Innsmouth Legacy trilogy (The Litany of Earth, Winter Tide, and Deep Roots), which reworks Lovecraft's Deep Ones as sympathetic survivors of ge...