The Shape of Secrets
When Rutha Paglinar led a scouting party to explore the wilderness surrounding their frontier village, she was prepared for a little conflict. Instead, she found a secret so powerful it could destroy her life. Now she must confront the truth with the fate of her friends in the balance.
The dryad Kata Sycamore has studied humans in secret for many years. When her careful observational distance goes astray, she takes a leap into adventure to help a people in need. But is it worth the risk to her own?
The Shape of Secrets (working title!) is my first novel and a long time project. Thankfully, I’ve rewritten it fully from its first drafts. I dropped it countless times to work on something new, but kept gravitating back. Finally, I decided to get serious and focus on finishing it. I have a complete draft that has finally reached the scary stage where I ask other people to read it. The road to published work is long, but I’m committed to seeing it through.
For a preview, take a look at the start of The Shape of Secrets below:
Coming to these woods was a mistake. Somewhere behind the matte greens and frost-tipped browns, a threat lurked unaware of her but not for long. If she just reached out to the forest for help—but no, that would expose her location to her people, the dryads that looked to take her home. Kata Sycamore was trapped.
She was being silly, of course—putting her life in danger just to avoid the dull responsibilities of caring for ents. She had to go home, and that was it. Her years of spying on humankind had been exciting but fleeting. Her will to run flagged, drawing her back towards her dryadic pursuers. What would she say to them? Her fellow dryads would never understand her, dreading humans as they did. No, she avoided them for a reason and she couldn’t give up yet.
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