The Reclamation · Book One
Overburden
An Appalachian Gothic cryptid romance about a land surveyor, an unstable coal site, and the old intelligence answering from inside the mountain.
Ongoing serialSlow-burn cryptid romanceA fictional West Virginia coal hollow
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What is Overburden about?
A technically gifted surveyor returns to the West Virginia coal hollow she escaped to map an unstable reclamation site. Her instruments work exactly as designed. The mountain answers anyway.
Overburden makes competence part of the courtship: water tables, survey lines, damaged infrastructure, and practical repair become a language between the heroine and a presence older than extraction. The result is a slow-burn cryptid romance grounded in Appalachian Gothic and ecological horror.
Competent heroineLiving landscapeReturning homeOld mine mysterySlow burn
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