Dust-Born Goddess

The forest is forbidden for a reason.

When Kaj, King of Sutra, crosses its boundary wounded and hunted, he believes he is fleeing war. Instead, he walks into a fate already written.

Celena does not rule from a throne. She was shaped by sacrifice, bound to dust and root, and claimed by a forest older than gods. She is not worshiped. She is endured.

Their meeting is no accident. It is prophecy tightening its grip.

As enemies stir in shadow and war closes in, the forest awakens-and so does the truth of what Celena is becoming: a goddess bound to the land, a curse the world tried to bury, and a power that does not bow to kings.

Some places test those who enter.
This one chooses.

And the King of Sutra has already been claimed.