Terror Below

For nine years, Mara Venn hasn't touched the ground. Not once. Because below, the forest floor is a hungry, silent killer, home to the Takers—skeletal hands that burst from the earth to drag anyone who dares to step on it into a horrifying, unseen abyss. Now, with her community's water supply dwindling and a child's life at stake, Mara must brave the treacherous canopy, swinging through the trees on a desperate mission to a distant spring. But the Takers are not just waiting; they are watching, learning, and whispering from the darkness. As the ground itself seems to hunt her, Mara faces a terror far deeper than she ever imagined when a familiar voice calls to her from the soil, begging her to come down. What unspeakable horror lies beneath, and can Mara escape its grasp?

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