The Witch and the Winged Lord: an Enemies-to-lovers Fae Romance Fantasy

She is the earth. He is the storm. To save their dying worlds, they must bleed together.Bryony is a gardener of dead things. In the village of Cinder-Hollow, the crops are screaming. A grey, necrotic Blight is consuming the land, turning soil to ash and wheat to dust. Bryony, a hedge-witch with the cursed ability to hear the agony of plants, knows the truth the Village Elders refuse to admit: the poison isn’t coming from the sky. It’s coming from below.Desperate to save her home, Bryony commits the ultimate treason. She crosses the iron-salt line into the Sunderwood—the sentient, ancient forest ruled by monsters.Varic is the Lord of Ravens. He is the Guardian of the Deep Green, a Fae Lord of shadow and wind. But he is rotting. The same corruption killing the human village is eating him alive, turning his immortality into a slow, agonizing decay. When he catches a human trespasser in his woods, he should kill her.Instead, he makes a deal.A Pact of Root and Raven. They swear a blood oath that binds their lives together. If one dies, the other withers. Bryony becomes his Hound, using her magic to track the source of the rot that Varic is too powerful to sense. Varic becomes her Shield, protecting her from the beasts of the forest and the wrath of his own people.But as they hunt the poison through the ruins of the Old Courts and into the heart of the village, the bond between them shifts. The hatred thaws into a terrifying intimacy. Bryony sees the lonely man beneath the monster’s feathers; Varic sees the iron will beneath the gardener’s soft skin.The truth will break them. When they discover the true source of the Blight, Bryony is forced to make an impossible choice. To save the forest, she must destroy her own kin. To save the village, she must betray the man who has become her other half.In a game of gods and parasites, love is the most dangerous magic of all.THE WITCH AND THE WINGED LORD is a high-stakes, slow-burn Romantasy perfect for fans of Naomi Novik, Sarah J. Maas, and Holly Black. Dive into a world of sentient forests, dark magic, and a love that defies the laws of nature.Tropes & Themes:🖤 Enemies to Lovers (True hatred to desperate devotion)🩸 Magical Bond / Soulmates (Shared pain, shared dreams)🐺 “Touch Her and You Die” (Protective Fae Male)🩹 Hurt / Comfort (Magical healing & tending to wounds)🌲 Sentient, Dangerous Forest Setting⚔️ Forced Proximity (Stuck in a cave/cage together)✨ Morally Grey Hero & Pragmatic Heroine🔥 Slow Burn with High Tension