What the Ground Remembers
A two-part novel of promises, pacts, and the things a Portland bookstore was never meant to hold.
“We buried it properly. That was supposed to be enough.”
Above the shop, the shelves are alphabetized and the espresso machine hisses on schedule. Below it — in the walls, in the floorboards, in the things that were promised and never quite paid for — something has been keeping time far longer than the bookstore has.
Years ago, two sisters made a pact in the dark and swore never to speak of it again. One of them kept that promise. The other came home.
What the Ground Remembers is told in two parts — Bean There Done That and Ash & Ink — following what happens when an old debt finally comes due, and what a town will do to keep pretending it doesn't remember either.
The Collection
“The stories they tell are not the problem.
The problem is what listens when they are told.”
— Dr. Imogen Vane
Some tales are still being written. A peek into the case files, the pact, and the pages still taking shape across Undine Grimoires' fiction — before they're ready to be read in full.