Fiction · The Landing · Book 2

The Landing: Roots

The shelter becomes a place people can depend on: warm rooms, road markers, shared ledgers, and winter pressure.

Cover of The Landing: Roots by Slop Dealer
  • Cozy sci-fantasy
  • The Landing, Book 2
  • 485 pages
  • May 3, 2026
  • Kindle on Amazon

About this book

The crashed ship is no longer just shelter. In Roots it becomes a winter waystation: a med-bay, a workshop, road markers on the safe paths, and shared ledgers that let the valley test whether this new place can be depended on.

It is the settling-in book. The pressure comes from winter, from the limits of what the damaged ship can actually do, and from old Thalani lights pulsing beyond the pass — a reminder that the valley had a history before Callum Wren arrived in it.

Reading order

  1. The Landing: Arrival — the crash and first contact, start here
  2. The Landing: Roots — this book