Heartwood

A forest is turning to amber — every tree, stream, and creature crystallizing into golden glass — and beekeeper's daughter Agna Melnik is the only person who can press her hands into the resin and hear the vast intelligence trapped within. Paired with a disgraced court magician haunted by past failure, Agna must journey to the forest's living heart before the amber shatters and unleashes an ancient devourer imprisoned beneath the roots. What she finds there will demand more than courage — it will demand surrender.