When a murdered guard is found tangled in the branches of the World Tree, disgraced warrior Kaela expects a routine investigation.
Instead, she’s forced to partner with Hian—a brilliant Flora investigator, former friend, and the last man she ever wanted at her side.
Their hunt for a killer leads beyond the safety of the World Tree into the human kingdoms, where another corpse waits beneath cursed branches, old political tensions are stirring, and the murder may be tied to a conspiracy threatening everything their people have built.
Kaela trusts instinct and steel. Hian trusts reason and old lore. They have spent years resenting each other.
Now they have to survive together.
As danger closes in and the road forces old wounds open, animosity gives way to a bond neither can deny. But with assassins moving in the shadows and a war hidden in the roots of history ready to bloom, surrendering to desire may be the most dangerous risk of all.
In a world grown from living branches and blood-soaked bark, love may be the one thing more perilous than betrayal.
Blood on the Bark is a slow-burn fantasy romance filled with murder, magic, enemies-to-lovers tension, and a richly imagined world of beastkin, living forests, and ancient secrets.
