Downloading Echoes In The Grove

Where Ancient Roots Grip Lust Like Vines and Every Moan Awakens the Woods’ Forbidden Pulse
Beneath the Veilwood’s canopy, the trees remember—every whispered lie, every forbidden touch, every breath stolen to feed their ancient hunger.
Lila Voss, a sharp-tongued ethnobotanist, returns to her ancestral village to document rituals the world has forgotten. Instead, she collides with Mara Caelis, the storm-eyed guardian who feeds the grove’s secrets with her blood and wears its scars like armor. Their rivalry ignites when Lila mocks Mara’s devotion to the forest, only to find herself pinned against a lichen-crusted oak, Mara’s teeth at her throat and a challenge hissed in the dark: “You study poisons but can’t name the venom in your veins.”
As they trek deeper into the grove’s cursed heart, their clashes dissolve into dangerous alliances. The forest thrums beneath their skin, its roots coiling around their ankles during moonlit rituals, its storms drowning their arguments in thunder. But the grove demands more than observation—it craves sacrifice. When Mara reveals a century-old curse that requires a lover’s last breath, Lila faces an impossible choice: betray her life’s work to save the woman she’s grown to crave, or let the woods claim another soul.
In the Veilwood, passion is a blade, and survival is a dance with roots that remember. Blood is traded for truths, scars are maps of defiance, and desire blurs the line between predator and prey.
Will Lila and Mara become another cautionary hymn etched into the bark… or rewrite the grove’s bloody song?
Beware! Genre:
Dark Sapphic Romance • Eco-Horror • Ritualistic Fantasy
Tone:
Gritty, sensual, unflinchingly raw—The L Word meets Annihilation in a forest that bleeds.