To the village of Greenwood, the forest holds only dark legends and forgotten monsters. To Maren, the daughter of the village apothecary, they hold feverfew, rare botanicals, and a truth no one else is willing to see. When her search for herbs brings her face-to-face with Kaelin—a cursed, centuries-old wight bound to the ancient greenwood—she doesn't run. Where others see a monster, Maren finds a living archive of a forgotten world. As seasons turn and a quiet bond forms between them, Maren must decide how much of herself she is willing to give to tether a lingering soul to the living world.
The morning fog hadn’t lifted when Maren slipped out of the apothecary's back door, her basket already half-full of excuses.“Feverfew”, she had told her father. “The patch along the eastern ridge is nearly stripped”. He had looked at her the way he always did, over the rims of his spectacles, with that particular silence that meant he knew she was not lying, exactly, only arranging the truth to su ...
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