What the Ground Knows
A Novel
A Western novel about violence as civic function—and what happens when the ground refuses to forget.
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In a frontier town built on efficiency, justice is not debated—it is demonstrated.
Public hangings, quiet interrogations, and unexplained disappearances maintain a fragile order that most residents accept as the cost of survival. When a woman is executed for a murder she did not commit, the town closes ranks, confident that repetition will bury doubt as it always has.
But some systems fail not through rebellion, but through memory.
As an outsider begins to notice what the town has trained itself not to see—patterns of absence, violence that arrives too quickly, and truths disposed of rather than resolved—the mechanisms of control turn inward. What follows is not redemption, but exposure.
Quiet, unsettling, and exacting, this is a Western novel about violence as civic function, silence as collective agreement, and what happens when the ground refuses to forget.
