The spark and storm
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They called her *witch* before they ever saw her power.
On the night her village turned to flame, sixteen-year-old **Maya** watched her mother unleash a storm of crystal and fire to save them both. Now hunted and exiled, Maya flees into the forbidden **Blackwood Forest**-a place whispered to be alive, where spirits of light drift between the trees and ancient gods still dream beneath the soil.
But something in the forest is watching her.
Something old enough to remember her bloodline.
And when it speaks her name, the world itself trembles.
Bound by prophecy and shadow, Maya must uncover the truth of her family's power-the *Crystalborn*-a lineage once sworn to guard the earth's heart from the darkness below. Yet with every step deeper into the forest, that darkness awakens...and it knows her name.
As the boundary between magic and madness thins, Maya will have to decide what she's willing to become to protect what remains of her world.
Because some destinies are not chosen.
They are awakened.
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