In the quiet town of Pine Hollow, nothing ever changes, and nothing ever happens-or so Seren Jameson has always believed. Restless and yearning for something more, she dreams of breaking free from the suffocating monotony of small-town life. But when Elijah, a mysterious new student with a shadowy past, arrives halfway through junior year, everything shifts. Rumours swirl around him, and though Seren knows she should stay away, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the enigma he presents.
As she gets closer to Elijah, Seren begins to uncover secrets that could shatter the fragile peace of Pine Hollow and her own life. But the more she learns, the more she realizes that excitement comes with a price. In a town where everyone knows everyone else's business, how much is Seren willing to risk to uncover the truth-and what will happen when the truth finally comes to light?
In The Roots Beneath, Seren must navigate the complexities of friendship, family, and first love, all while grappling with the unsettling feeling that her life is on the brink of a seismic change. Will Elijah be the excitement she's been searching for, or will he bring more trouble than she ever could have imagined?
When a blood-marked witch steps into cursed wolf territory, she expects to fight. She doesn't expect the land to recognize her.
Seren has spent her life surviving the bond that was never hers to choose - a legacy of magic, prophecy, and silence passed down by witches who once feared the forest more than they understood it. But when she bleeds on the ancient shrine hidden deep within wolf-run lands, she awakens something older than the packs. Something that doesn't want to be sealed again.
Kael is Alpha by birth but not by hunger. Stoic, fierce, and bound to a curse he never believed in, he watches Seren with more than suspicion. He watches her like a question - one only the forest can answer. And when her magic starts reshaping the world around them, he'll have to decide whether she's his mate... or the end of everything he knows.
But the spiral magic doesn't demand obedience.
It demands a choice.
As ancient powers stir, blood oaths fracture, and the bond between witch and wolf deepens, Seren must unravel the truth behind the curse - and decide whether fate was ever written in stone, or if love can be carved into something new.