Deep Earth: the Weight of World

The correction has begun.Forty-three people wake in the middle of the night with the same impossible certainty: The ground beneath their homes is poisoning them.None of them knows how they know.Liz Simmons does.Deep beneath the Earth's crust, an ancient biological intelligence has spent billions of years evolving through a vast network of microbial life. Humanity's decades of pumping toxic waste into the deep Earth awakened it-and Liz became the first human willing to share its consciousness.Now the Root has acted on its own.It saved an entire neighborhood.Without permission.For Liz, the act was mercy.For governments already desperate to contain the truth, it is proof that humanity is losing control.Jack Morgan stands between two worlds that no longer trust one another. As government forces close in and political alliances fracture, he must decide whether to defend the oldest intelligence on Earth-or help destroy it before fear ignites a war neither species can survive.The Root is learning what it means to live alongside humanity.Humanity must decide whether it can live alongside the Root.The first contact between two intelligent civilizations did not come from the stars.It came from beneath our feet.