Cambium

The Matriarch of Blackheath isn't just dying. It's bleeding.

Julian Farrow is a disgraced dendrochronologist, a man who reads time in the rings of ancient wood. Exiled from academia, he finds himself summoned to the Blackheath Estate in Cornwall by the reclusive Isolde Craggs. Her request is simple: diagnose the sickness rotting the "Matriarch," a colossal, unclassified tree kept within the estate's stifling Victorian glasshouse.

But the Matriarch defies biology. Its bark is pale and soft, wa...