The satyrs are dying. Their magic is fading. They need a human vessel for their melodies.
The first song Crystal Everhart plays in the woods changes everything.
What begins as an escape from rejection becomes a summoning: a veil-thin world of satyrs, ancient archives, dead heartwoods, and a curse that has been eating the forest for generations. Crystal’s music can make flowers bloom, poison retreat, and impossible things answer back. But it also draws the attention of Persiah, the goddess of rot, who knows exactly how to weaponize longing, grief, and hope.
Jerome has spent his life protecting the grove from humans, from magic, and from the mistake that destroyed his family before him. The last thing he needs is a gifted outsider with a dangerous violin and a gift that seems to make the forest wake up around her. Yet the deeper Crystal and Jerome play together, the more the old magic stirs—and the more Persiah closes in.
To save the grove, Crystal and Jerome must risk the one thing the curse is built to destroy: trust. But if they fail, the forest will fall, and one of them may become the goddess’s next voice.
