Inheritance: What the Land Keeps

Middleton is the kind of town people leave.The streets are quiet. The houses lean with age. The woods press close at the edge of everything.When Kyle Bowman returns with his wife Alecia, he tells himself it is only temporary. A chance to start over. A chance to repair what has begun to break between them.But the land remembers him.Behind the old Bowman house stands a massive willow tree. Its roots twist through the black soil like buried veins. Animals will not come near it. The ground beneath it never dries.Something is wrong with the tree.And something beneath it has been waiting.As the days grow stranger and the town begins to close in around them, Kyle realizes that some things do not stay buried. The past has weight. The land keeps its own memory.And some inheritances cannot be escaped. Read more