The Sentinel's Prayer

The Sentinel's Prayer Book One of the Star-Woven Trilogy A broken reality. An impossible connection. A world that wants her dead. Lyna thought her biggest Monday crisis was a spilled cup of coffee—until she opened a restroom door and stepped straight into the heart of a towering, primordial forest. Cold, quiet, and seemingly endless, this is the Sunken Reach, an otherworldly wilderness where modern instincts are useless and the natural order is enforced by brutal rules. As if being stranded in a living nightmare wasn't enough, a strange, iridescent gem she found in her pocket suddenly liquefies, sinking straight through her pores and leaving a permanent, glowing silver brand wrapped around her knuckles. Lyna has no training, no tools, and no maps. Yet the anomalous, volatile magic now bound to her flesh acts as a literal beacon in the pitch-black woods—attracting dangerous, shadow-born predators intent on purging her like an infection. To survive, she must quickly learn to read the secrets of the ancient canopy and navigate a reality she doesn't understand. Because the forest is violently rejecting her presence, and the fraying thread holding Lyna to this reality is already running out of time.