Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Some forests are settings. Others feel like witnesses.
Daughter of the Forest unfolds in a world shaped by old magic, family bonds, sacrifice, and the quiet power of the natural world. The forest isn’t simply somewhere the characters pass through. It shelters, conceals, threatens, and seems to hold its own memory of everything that happens beneath its branches.
It’s the kind of fantasy where the landscape feels almost as important as the people moving through it and where stepping into the woods means accepting that you may not be the only thing paying attention.
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