The Forest Remembers
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Elira didn't ask to be the last. She didn't ask to carry the weight of a vanished world on her shoulders. But after the druids were hunted down and forgotten, someone had to stay behind.
The Whisperwood was her home long before it became a myth. She was raised among its trees, taught to listen to the wind, the soil, the things most people stopped hearing long ago. Now, the forest is changing. Growing quiet. Uneasy.
Something is breaking beneath the surface.
With only Thistle a winged companion who's more heart than fury, and Fenrik, a shadow-born panther tied to her by fate, Elira must return to a place she's avoided for years: Ember Hollow. The place where her grandmother made a pact to keep the forest safe a pact that may be unraveling.
The world beyond the trees has forgotten what lives in the dark. But Elira hasn't. And if she doesn't act, everything that still remembers might be lost.
The Forest Remembers is a story about the quiet courage it takes to hold onto what matters, the pain of carrying history alone, and the hope buried in even the darkest roots.
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