When Ama abandons her future as a respectable scribe’s wife, she follows a forbidden rumor deep into the ancient Propogati forest—a place where the trees still whisper with the magic of a vanished civilization. Hidden beneath weeping stone and silver leaves lies a luminous pool said to reveal a traveler’s deepest hunger.
Ama expects madness.
Instead, she finds Damiir.
The last guardian of the dying grove is no man, but a living embodiment of the wild itself—ancient, beautiful, and dangerously lonely. Drawn together by the pool’s mysterious power,they forge a bond that is as sensual as it is transformative, awakening desires she never dared name and tying her fate to the future of the forest.
But the grove is fading, hunted by greedy men eager to strip its magic for profit. As outsiders close in Ama must decide whether she truly belongs to the civilized world she left behind… or to the untamed wood that has claimed her body, her hunger, and her soul.
