Ash and Bloom

Something fell into the Blue Ridge mountains — a seed, gestating, quietly remaking the world in its own image. The trees are wrong. The animals are wrong. And the Song it sings is getting louder.

Mara Quinn, 34, ex-hotshot firefighter turned homesteader, wants nothing to do with it. But the fire that took her crew taught her one thing the Veyr never counted on: fire is its great weakness. With her dog Cinder at her side, Mara is about to learn what it costs to burn a world — and what it means to be tuned to its Song.