The Roots That Bind
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Last published Tue, Aug 25, 2026
Dunmore was Tala's past. An isolated peninsula walled in by steep hills and mountains, it felt like the edge of the world to anyone who lived there. After her aunt's sudden death, Tala returns to the hometown she swore she'd never see again, forced to confront the history she buried and the people she left behind.
When a violent storm wipes out the two main thoroughways and severs the peninsula from the mainland, Dunmore is trapped. Cut off from rescue, with no way out and no help able to reach them, the community is left to survive on its own.
As residents work to clear the wreckage and reestablish a way out, people begin to fall ill as an epidemic spreads through the town. When Tala discovers the infection is rooted to the very history she's spent her life trying to escape, she races to save the infected and destroy the source before rescue crews arrive and containment becomes impossible.
They say you can never truly leave home. In Dunmore, it isn't nostalgia - it's a warning. The roots that bind run deep, and they never let go.
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