My wonderful agent, Cameron McClure, continues to provide feedback, guidance, and hand-holding—all much-needed during the creation of this book. My wonderful editor, Carl Engle-Laird, patiently (and sometimes impatiently) pushed me to make Deep Roots better, creepier, and more true to itself. I just cut an extra “and” out of the previous sentence because I knew he wouldn’t like it, and anxiously await his judgment on the repetition of “my wonderful X” two sentences in a row. [We’re good.—Ed.]
Belated thanks also to my Winter Tide audiobook pronunciation rescue squad: Alex Shvartsman for Russian, Janetta Lun for Cantonese, Shelby Anfenson-Comeau and T. J. Donahue and Lila yet again for Japanese, and Sarah Emrys for R’lyehn, Enochian, and Latin. Bella Wang helped me name Catherine Trumbull’s girlfriend and translate Lovecraft’s “Tsan-Chan Empire” into something sensible, and then kindly provided pronunciation help for the Mandarin and Cantonese.
Above and beyond everything else I’ve mentioned, Sarah continues to provide alpha reading, moral support, child care, a shoulder to scream on, and an endless willingness to gossip about the strange people who live in my head. Without her there would be no books, and a great many fewer sanity points.
ALSO BY RUTHANNA EMRYS
Winter Tide
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RUTHANNA EMRYS lives in a mysterious manor house on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., with her wife and their large, strange family. Her stories have appeared in a number of venues, including Strange Horizons, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and Tor.com. She is the author of the Innsmouth Legacy series, which began with Winter Tide. She makes homemade vanilla, obsesses about game design, gives unsolicited advice, and occasionally attempts to save the world. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraphs
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
DEEP ROOTS
Copyright © 2018 by Ruthanna Emrys
All rights reserved.
Edited by Carl Engle-Laird
Cover art by John Jude Palencar
Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill
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First Edition: July 2018
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