Soil

Veda is damaged. When Veda was 12 years-old she and her mom left behind their hometown and the scene of an ugly divorce to move into an odd little house with a peculiar past located in the rural town of Belmore, Missouri. When Veda meets the coolest girl in school Sass (aka Sasha) on her first day at Belmore Middle School she thinks things are beginning to look up for her. However, what ensues is a twisty and tumultuous toxic friendship that grows between the two girls throughout their school years until disaster strikes in the form of Sass’s death at an innocent teenage sleepover. Now, an adult Veda attempts to unravel the trauma of her friend's death within her childhood home by researching the mysteries that surround the house and its former occupants. But what Veda finds isn’t the happily ever after she was hoping for. Told through multiple narrators and back and forth timelines, Soil is a novel that explores what people can be capable of when pushed to their limits.