Series: Book 1 in the Eight Chant series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Summary
Four seasons. Four stories. An aspiring enchantress
searches for a way to lift a terrible curse. A drunken father
makes a dangerous wish. A foreman tilts the balance between
nature and progress. A mother travels with her dying child in
search of a healer. Four paths merge. Four destinies
intertwine. Adriel is an apprentice enchantress living in the forest
of Albadone. Her teacher falls ill due to a terrible curse
and sends her on a quest to fetch the ingredients for an
enchantment that may save her. Upon returning to the cabin
they share, Adriel stumbles upon a terrible secret. Handel is an alcoholic father. His daughter's dying wish
is for him to travel within the heart of the forest to seek
the mysterious Wishing Tree. Handel finds the Tree, but the
wish it grants may not be what he bargained for. Brade is a foreman digging into the heart of the forest,
seeking the volatile black water within its depths. The
warnings he receives go unheeded, and he unknowingly sets
into motion a terrible catastrophe. Ashe's baby is dying. All the healers have left the woods
of Albadone, so the desperate mother travels through the
forest in search of anyone that may help. But the help that
she finds comes at a terrible cost.