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From your acclaimed author of Blood vessels Sport and Blood vessels Tide, comes another impressing, original work of twisted fiction. In the beginning was the Oak, its hungry roots reaching profound into the earth, its gnarled limbs looking the faraway heavens. Two hundred years ago, Obediah Magrute worshipped the Oak and passed away violently beneath it, feeding it with his blood vessels and bone, shouting his chilling curse to the skies. Now, Laura and Symbol Avery have come to the bustling little Vermont town. They have abandoned their frenetic city life to settle in the old Eldridge Place also to start their family. Calm and quaint, the town is nestled among the list of rolling green hills of Hubley's Gore. For years and years, the inhabitants of the tiny farming village possessed tilled the dirt, eking out a living from the harsh land, bound jointly by time, by ties of kinship, by their fight resistant to the savage elements...and by the dark secret in their midst. Silent, supreme, it held sway over them. Buried profound in the dirt, in the center of the dense forest, in the spirit of the living timber, it commanded the very elements. It demanded compliance and unholy worship and...sacrifice. Laura and Symbol are not superstitious, though. They find the local legends enchanting. But as the times of year turn and the full moon increases, people perish in Hubley's Gore in thrall to an ancient, terrible power.
