The Rootheart Whispers : Tongue of the Serpent
Overview
Some things buried beneath New Orleans were never meant to wake.
Deep beneath the streets of the French Quarter, something ancient is stirring.
They call it the Rootheart, a living tangle of memory, grief, and hunger that has slept beneath the city for generations. Now roots are breaking through stone. Doorways are opening onto places that should not exist. Time is slipping. And something beneath it all is calling Evelyn by a name she abandoned long ago.
Lucien Devereux has spent centuries collecting dangerous objects and convincing himself that watching from a safe distance is the same thing as wisdom. But when the Rootheart reaches for Evelyn, observation is no longer enough.
Alongside Sister Mercy, who hears the dead a little too clearly, and Renard Blackwood, a carnival-born trickster with his own dangerous curiosity, Lucien follows a trail through haunted houses, midnight masquerades, cursed objects, river ghosts, forgotten bargains, impossible roads, and memories with teeth.
At first, the incidents seem separate.
They aren't.
Something is feeding the Rootheart, and every secret uncovered gives it another way into the world above.
To save New Orleans, Evelyn will have to confront the ancient choice that created the wound in the first place, while Lucien must decide whether he will finally step out from behind the counter and risk something of his own.
Because the Rootheart does not simply remember your grief.
It learns how to use it.
The Rootheart Whispers is the second novel in Tongue of the Serpent, a Southern Gothic supernatural series of haunted histories, dangerous magic, complicated immortals, found family, and a New Orleans where every bargain has a price.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798191516493
- ISBN-10: 9798191516493
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.81 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.16 pounds
- Page Count: 396
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