Children Of The Blackened Root (The Root And Hunger Chronicles) Paperback – January 20, 2026

Children of the Blackened RootBook One Of The Root And Hunger ChroniclesEldermere is a city that survives by remembering what it pretends to forget. Beneath its humid streets and leaning brick rowhouses, eight old families maintain the wards, rituals, and unspoken agreements that keep something far worse than crime or decay at bay. They have inherited powers shaped by sin, judgment, fire, memory, and blood, each gift bound to a cost the city has never fully paid. For generations, these families have kept Eldermere standing by controlling the damage rather than healing its cause.That balance begins to fracture when the heirs come of age too soon. A boy who sees sin before it becomes action. A young woman raised among forbidden names and censored histories. Burners who learn that fire cannot cleanse what people refuse to change. Judges who discover that truth alone does not prevent harm. As the next generation steps into roles shaped by secrecy and compromise, they begin to understand that the monsters stalking Eldermere are not invaders from elsewhere, but reflections of the city itself.As wards weaken and ancient debts surface, vampire factions move quietly through the city, observing, tempting, and waiting for the moment when desperation outweighs loyalty. Longstanding traditions demand obedience in the name of survival, even as they reproduce the very horrors they were meant to contain. Love becomes dangerous, truth becomes leverage, and moral certainty erodes under the weight of necessity.Children of the Blackened Root is a dark urban fantasy about inheritance and consequence, where survival often requires choosing the lesser harm and every choice feeds something hungry. It is a story of a city built on unacknowledged sins, of families bound by duty rather than righteousness, and of heirs forced to confront the truth that some roots do not nourish, they consume. Read more