{"product_id":"the-field-r-d-parrish-9798237895414","title":"The Field","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE FIELD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSome ground should never be broken.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour feet down, Evan Wallace's shovel strikes something that shouldn't exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot rock or the usual Carolina clay.\u003cbr\u003eA barrier. Engineered. Deliberate. Sealed by people who knew that forgetting wasn't weakness-it was survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Moore doesn't care. The funeral home is failing. The cemetery is full. The east tract looks empty, and empty land means profit. He orders the burials to continue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThat's when the pressure begins.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mind and in the bones. A weight that doesn't lift. Animals abandon the ridge. Neighbors turn on each other with fists and worse. Good people become capable of terrible things, and they don't know why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe soil compacts on its own.\u003cbr\u003eGraves finish themselves.\u003cbr\u003eAnd something beneath the membrane begins to respond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchaeologist Janet Rowe uncovers what the town spent centuries trying to erase: \u003cstrong\u003ethe east tract was never empty. It was contained.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeliberately isolated from memory, ritual, and acknowledgment. Because the barrier wasn't designed to hold something in, it was designed to keep the living from remembering so that it could feed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Richard Moore has broken the seal. Every casket lowered through the breach is an invitation. Every funeral is acknowledgment. And whatever lies beneath doesn't forgive, it \u003cstrong\u003ecollects\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow the debt is coming due.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe field doesn't think. It doesn't scheme. It doesn't explain itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt only reacts.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd when containment fails, someone must pay the price.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor readers who crave Southern Gothic dread, supernatural horror rooted in human cruelty, and endings that don't offer comfort, only consequence.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. D. Parrish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798237895414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e R.D. Parrish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"R. D. Parrish","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50848696598783,"sku":"9798237895414","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-field-r-d-parrish-9798237895414","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}