The Dark Beneath Us

Grace Clarke has always lived with shadows, her mother's most of all. Penelope Clarke is volatile, secretive, and half-absent even when she's home. At night, she disappears into the dark, returning with strange smells in her hair and dirt under her nails. Everyone in the village knows not to ask where she goes. Grace doesn't ask either. Until one night, Pen doesn't come back. Grace's search takes her deep into a web of half-buried memories, folkloric horror, and the whispered legacy of women who came before her; like her grandmother Ida, a reclusive hedge witch with more warnings than comfort.
As the truth uncoils, Grace begins to wonder: was her mother trying to protect her all along? Or pull her into something darker?Vibe - The Haunting of Hill House meets The VVitch, with a dash of Hereditary and a forest, always watching. The standalone prequel to Earthly Bodies (2021)