A Foreigner in the Place Unburned

A character-driven dark fantasy of grief, found family, and a forest that remembers. For readers of lyrical, intimate epics.

Adam arrives in Thalarelle carrying nothing but ash. The forest keeps him anyway — in root-lit chambers, behind doors that hold rather than close, among strangers who choose each other like kin. But the forest remembers everything, and so must he.

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