In 1845 Texas, something ancient is waking beneath the soil.When Kaliyah and her friends uncover a spiral of bones near a long-dead creek, they awaken a red-fleshed tree that feeds on names, memories, and love itself. The deeper they dig, the more the land remembers-and what it remembers wants them back.Paul hears his dead mother's voice outside his window. Jazmyn's drawings show faces buried beneath the tree, screaming in silence. Nate dreams of drowning and wakes with root scars over his heart. And Kaliyah, caught between legacy and horror, is forced to confront the truth: this curse runs in her blood.To survive, they must perform a forbidden ritual: one name spoken, one memory surrendered, one heartbeat stopped.But the red tree doesn't just take.It remembers.And it never lets go.