Ivy Entangled

"You're real," Flint whispered, stepping back as the roots beneath Ivy's feet slowly curled like they were listening.
Ivy tilted her head, vines shifting through her fingers as she answered softly, "Not anymore... but I remember pretending I was."

In Everroot Village, the forest is not a place you enter - it is a place you are taken.

Flint has spent his whole life obeying the rules: never cross the tree line, never follow the whispers in the wind, and never speak the names of those who never returned.

Until the day the forest speaks his first.

Deep within its shifting shadows, he finds her - Ivy.

She is not fully human anymore. Not fully anything. The forest has woven itself through her memories, her skin, her very name... yet something about her still feels familiar, like a half-remembered life he can't quite reach.

As Flint is pulled deeper into the living maze of roots and silence, he begins to uncover the truth Everroot Village buried long ago: the forest doesn't take the guilty.

It takes the forgotten.

And Ivy remembers everything... except how to leave.

[Stand alone book]